"poetry," delivered in a self-importantly slow cadence

I thought that that was how you became a poet. You have to be "slow" and be self-important. Actually using the tools of language rather than ignoring them is a waste of time, and SO jackbooted american . . . . . . .
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Soldiery.

I was sooo moved by his profound eloquence. Really. After this, how can any of us not be ashamed of our country? Personally, I'm moving to Canada.

Especially loved the self-righteous snorts.

That guy's probably the last person who ought to be calling someone else "a bad joke."

Is this suppose to be a response to Iraqi Betty's go to hell?

I'll admit that I could only stand about 45 seconds of it before I ran out of patience and navigated away. But I would pay good money to see the piece performed by William Shatner.

Here's a hint for your next gig, Chief: wait until after you do the poem to put the spike in your arm.

I'm assuming the poet is Japanese because he said that the popular Japanese Prime Minister Koizume is a puppet.

Also, I'm assuming the poet is not currently living in Japan because he said that the popular Japanese Prime Minister Koizume is a puppet.

I sure hope he was wearing clothes, because that would only make it weirder.

Eh, my post makes no sense. My point is, the poet is an idiot. I doubt that most Japanese would agree that Koizume is a puppet. From what I've heard, the Prime Minister is a mix of John Kennedy and Elvis as Prime Ministers go.

Could a nation wide tour with Cindy Sheehan be next?

Coming soon, to a ditch near you!

(I'll give the guy this much-- he's funnier than Margret Cho.)

http://www.geocities.jp/gqwyc007/english.htm

Check it out Don the narrator teaches English in Japan...scroll down to the little quiz for his wife's english class...final question asks if Bush is a war criminal...

(I'll give the guy this much-- he's funnier than Margret Cho.)

Hell, I've taken dumps that are funnier than Margaret Cho. And smarter too!

you know, all this time time, I've been the biggest supporter of President Bush and the Republicans...but, after that poem...

all I gotta say is...

I need some weed...

I've got some weed... and it doesn't help.

Lapsed Leftist said:
I'll admit that I could only stand about 45 seconds

I made it through 52 seconds.

and to think, I challenged everybody in my address book to see if they could survive 4:37 of this thing

I really feel like a wimp now. I think I got 20 seconds with that guy.

You are.................how you Americans say?.................

Douchebag.

Mac, that was too easy. But then I like Shatner's "Rocket Man". http://www.devilducky.com/media/21099

And Stewie's version is pretty good too.
http://www.devilducky.com/media/24771

Come on! This is on the same brilliant level of a great prison poet. If you don't "get' it you're jus ttroglodytes:

Images
by 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 land lord!

pony-tail + slow cadence + minority + self-righteous snort + bare chest = total moral authority

Wait, I forgot to carry the 4. Let's see, hmmmmm. Sorry, bout that. The answer is total turd.

Damn, I only made it about 5 seconds. Then I tried it again and only made it 3. I didn't even get to hear any of the snorting.

There's boring in the passive sense of not being any fun and then there's BORING in the active sense of sucking any life out of you until you can't take any more. This is definitely the latter for me.

JFH, The last line is

C-I-L-L, my landlord [beat] DEAD!

But I am so impressed that someone was brought up on the same literature that I was. Ohhh, Mr. Robinson, how we miss thee.

I made it through about 10 seconds...but did get a laugh. Like...yo, man...

He's the dude I saw in 2000 at a party in North Hampton. When the bonfire went out he helpfully added gasoline to it and blew up the entire back porch in the process. When the fire department came all we could do to get him to put the knife down was to tell him that Vietnam was over and the hot tub was ready.

...just.....like......real.........life.

Pam, me too. 15 secs and I was gone.

BTW, I love your work in "The Office".

\too obscure?

dude, why are we wasting time and money on peed on Korans and female strippers? just hold their eyes open and make them watch that till they tell us what we want to know.

heck, I'd tell you what I know if you forced me to watch that again.

in fact, I'll tell you what I know just so you WON'T make me watch that again

Yet another sad example of a novice who attempted poetry without properly warming up and stretching first.

When will they learn?!!!

I kind of liked it. But then, I like shoving ten-penny nails up my nose until blood squirts out of the corner of my left eye and drips off my freshly-shaved chin.

Ace, you're right, that whole "specific" thing really works. Heh.

Ace isn't around. He's catching the midnight showing of Bareback Mtn.

Hell, I've taken dumps that are funnier than Margaret Cho. And smarter too!

Made me laugh!

I have a pretty simple sense of humor.

I wonder if this "HUMP" really put any thought into this, this, this pot induced blabbering?

He say's
"I am in the end an accomplice to this murder, standing, and watching, doing nothing-How dead I feel."

So what he leads me to beleive is that while Saddam was killing his own people it made him feel what ALIVE?

I love how Free people, with left leaning Idea's always just look at one side of a coin, and then feel like the rest of the world should have to listen to there self absorbed diatribe on how they FEEL!

Here is some new's for the "HUMP" I can give to shit's how you feel, Now shut the F@#k up, go get a hair cut and do something productive that the rest of the world might give a shit about, like maybe BATHING?!?!?!?!

And that is my lil' self absorbed diatribe.
Did ya like it?

~Jeff D.

My goodness, I hope his giant load of self-righteousness didn't cause him to sprain something.

My goodness, I hope his giant load of self-righteousness didn't cause him to sprain something

He's talking so slowy, and with so much effort that he might be CHOKING on a giant load of something else.

and have you notice he appears to be laying in a bathtub, apparently nude, and STILL looks dirty, not dirty, FILTHY, not filthy, as though he is a sausage casing filled with Dirt and Filth?

I think the visual of him is a better metaphor than any of the stupid linguistic nothingness he spews.

Liberals are a like a saussage, a sausage with many ingredients, a sausage of the crazy people. To understand a liberal you must understand the recipe of being a liberal. Take dirt, filth, ignorance, and ungliness, stuff it into a casing, then play monotonous music in the background while you ramble in a drunken haze, and THERE you have the PERFECT Kerry voter, or the guy with the complete Mya Angelooooooooo whatever the spelling collection.

just one more post because I know you are jealous of atrios and the number if his posts.

Which has made me wonder over the last week ACE, do you have Post envy? Are you jealous of the size of Atrios's post?

Myself, I'm happy with my post, it has served me well. Ace has post envy, hehehe.

Off topic...

I just got a webhost and installed WordPress. There isn't much there at the moment, but if anyone is up for testing out my comment system for me, I created an open thread (in honor of Atrios, of course).

While you're at it, if anyone thinks the template I'm using sucks or something, that'd be nice to know too. BTW, the name "Dave's WONDER BLOG" is not a real name... I just needed to fill space to make sure I could drop an image on the banner etc. So... um...yeah... I'll think of a name.

Okay, I suck. Please be merciful. And ace, if this annoys you I'm sorry. I just didn't know where to find people with no lives who wouldn't mind wasting a few seconds testing the comments on my craptastic little (future) site. :-)

him: "I feel...dead inside."

me; "Uh...yea sure, canned goods on the bottom this time OK?"

Regarding poetry in general: I love the quote from Dirac:

"In physics, we try to express something that no one has thought of before as simply as possible. In poetry, it's just the opposite."

(while on crack) I saw...

HELL YEAH! Ace posted my link!

And not only that, I learned by reading the comments that I'm not the only one who keeps reading it "Bareback Mountain."

Have you heard of masters of war?
Are you proud of killing the american Indians, enslaving the Africans, napalming the Vietnamese, killing the earth-Let nature judge the truth-spontaneity
In the end-this is the end- we will see-left or right - it doesn not matter- truth to nature and karma is the truth- or maybe I can laugh at you in Hell-I hope so. don

http://www.revver.com/upload/1/10895/view/
I am really glad i left america.20 years ago-and i have been here with a bunch of japanese koizumi rednecks and I sometimes wonder if my choice was correct - After reading your comments i can confirm that my decision was a good one. At least the rednecks in japan dont go around killing babies. i am sorry to offend you-thats just my poetry. JUst hope god has mercy on you, if not we can just laugh at each other in hell.