trying to write a poem against war
that perhaps may please my daughter
who hates politics
and does not care much for poetry, either.No wonder, after being forced, no doubt, to listen to cuckoo mommy's rants.
Katha Pollitt's daughter also wanted to hang a flag in honor of the dead of 9/11. Pollitt wrote a big column about how she refused to let her daughter do so, and detailed the big lectures about the evils of flags.