That vexed question of how to write the politics into. What I like
about your ways of doing so, Hal, is that you cut to the chase, over &
over again, & do so obviously cuttingly (the snarkiness necessary, &
the comic twist).
So the trade names are just part of 'shock & awe' 24/7, as they like to
say; or all the noose all the time...
Doug
On 4-Apr-07, at 10:40 AM, Halvard Johnson wrote:
> Sonnet: The Jinx Is On
>
> I still feel like I’m in a dream. Misdirection and other
> anxieties overtake me. Americans in Erbil arrest
> Iranians at an increasingly rapid rate. The jinx is on.
>
> Space probes on Mars, they say, are looking for
> the wrong forms of life. Good dreams, not nightmares,
> for the first time in years. Everything here is alive.
>
> I’ll try less clonazepam and more of the other stuff.
> Sentenced in absentia for crimes against pizzeria
> managers, he took refuge on Mogamigawa, a Japanese
>
> oil tanker soon to collide with the USS Newport News.
> Zoo animals on Prozac, it’s been found, still chase
> their tails for hours on end. Lawyers representing
>
> detainees at Guantánamo, now on a federal hit list
> despite good faith efforts to have their names expunged.
>
>
> Hal
>
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