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Writing poetry was the balm that kept Guantanamo prisoners from going mad
San Francisco Chronicle ^
| 7/17/5
| Thomas Coghlan
Posted on 07/17/2005 12:44:23 PM PDT by SmithL
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To: tet68
Maybe in Pashto there really is a word that rhymes with orange!
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posted on
07/17/2005 12:58:58 PM PDT
by
Theresawithanh
(As long as Dean's the head of the D-N-C, it just looks better for the G-O-P!!)
To: SmithL
I'm glad to see that the administration aiding the Arts.
To: SmithL
"Just as the heart beats in the darkness of the body, so I, despite this cage, continue to beat with life. Those who have no courage or honor consider themselves free, but they are slaves. I am flying on the wings of thought, and so, even in this cage, I know a greater freedom." Just as the virus gnaws at the essence of life, so I, despite this prison, continue to draw life from everything I touch. Those who have no courage or honor -- like my roomates and I -- consider themselves noble, but they are maggots. I am deluded on the wings of simplistic rapture and so, even in this prison, I know diddly squat.
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posted on
07/17/2005 12:59:26 PM PDT
by
IronJack
To: SmithL
Wearin' Panties by Mo Ha Med
My roomates wearin' panties
he says they feelin good
the sol-juzz think they make him talk
but he says they give him wood.
To: NormsRevenge
I smell a Nobel Prize for Literature, NOT! Don't speak too soon. This is just the sort of crap the Nobel folks love to give awards for.
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posted on
07/17/2005 12:59:59 PM PDT
by
silent_jonny
(I miss you, Tammy)
To: SmithL
"Just as the heart beats in the darkness of the body, so I, despite this cage, continue to beat my wife."
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posted on
07/17/2005 1:00:22 PM PDT
by
inkling
To: Theresawithanh
Maybe in Pashto there really is a word that rhymes with orange!
I think it's somewhere between "death to the great satan" and
"zionist kufar".
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posted on
07/17/2005 1:02:41 PM PDT
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: SmithL
Great post, but you should've included a BARF ALERT in the title ;)
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posted on
07/17/2005 1:03:49 PM PDT
by
silent_jonny
(I miss you, Tammy)
To: doug from upland
You win, thread's over...
To: DainBramage
The man's a Shakespeare! ;) Love it!
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posted on
07/17/2005 1:05:47 PM PDT
by
Maury
To: SmithL
Wow.
Gitmo poetry sucks just as bad as regular poetry.
Who'da thought?
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posted on
07/17/2005 1:05:55 PM PDT
by
Xenalyte
(Anything is possible when you don't understand how anything happens.)
To: SmithL
One poem reads: "Just as the heart beats in the darkness of the body, so I, despite this cage, continue to beat with life. Those who have no courage or honor consider themselves free, but they are slaves. I am flying on the wings of thought, and so, even in this cage, I know a greater freedom." "...so I will kill you all if I ever get out of this place."
To: peyton randolph
Come, now, you're leaving out the best parts!
The poem is actually titled "Images," and the author (as played by Eddie Murphy) is named Tyrone Green.
Dark and lonely on a summer's night.
Kill my landlord. Kill my landlord.
Watchdog barking. Do he bite?
Kill my landlord. Kill my landlord.
Slip in his window. Break his neck.
Then his house I start to wreck.
Got no reason. What the heck?
Kill my landlord. Kill my landlord.
C-I-L my landlord!
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posted on
07/17/2005 1:07:14 PM PDT
by
Xenalyte
(Anything is possible when you don't understand how anything happens.)
To: Xenalyte
Thanks for posting the whole poem. Truly a masterpiece.
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posted on
07/17/2005 1:11:06 PM PDT
by
peyton randolph
(Warning! It is illegal to fatwah a camel in all 50 states)
To: peyton randolph
It gives one goosebumps, no?
Wow. Just . . . wow. The beauty.
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posted on
07/17/2005 1:12:54 PM PDT
by
Xenalyte
(Anything is possible when you don't understand how anything happens.)
To: SmithL
Excerpts from the book:
Here I sit
All broken-hearted
Tried to kill the Infidel
But only farted.
____
Little Ahmed Horner
Sat in a corner
Eating his Ramadan pie
He put in his thumb
and pulled out a plum
and shouted "DEATH TO THE INFIDELS!!"
____
Haiku for Islamic Extremists:
Memories of my long absent lover
Short brown hair
Baaaah! Baaaah!
To: SmithL
There once was an Afhan at Gitmo
Who was a no good Islamofacist mo-fo
He scratched out a poem
And wished he was home
So he could behead and defile all the stupid Liberal morons who feel sorry for his worthless a$$
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posted on
07/17/2005 1:33:42 PM PDT
by
43north
(Pain is God's way of telling me I'm still alive.)
To: 43north
Make that: "Afghan at Gitmo"
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posted on
07/17/2005 1:34:47 PM PDT
by
43north
(Pain is God's way of telling me I'm still alive.)
To: SmithL
How bout some rap
39
posted on
07/17/2005 1:40:10 PM PDT
by
Boazo
(From the mind of BOAZO)
To: doug from upland
ROFL
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