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I cannot just sit here and say nothing - The sonnet applies perfectly to our Little Johnnie Howard who is hanging on to the reins of power here by the skin of his teeth - and by the fuck-ups (in past elections) by the Labour opposition. (Nice mixed metaphors, I think.) I enjoyed it very much, Hal. Andrew On 29/07/07, Halvard Johnson <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Sonnet: A Little Story > > We cannot just sit here and say nothing, so I'll tell you > what—I'll tell you a little story. Once upon a time > there was a little president who thought he could be bigger. > He tried and tried to grow himself but only got him smaller. > > He sent out folks to find folks littler than him so he could > make them like him more. But they, they just didn't listen and so > he had to kick their butts. Then they, they only hollered, and he, > he smallified some more. I'll smallify the world, he said, and > > then, if'n they don't line up with me, I'll smallify them more. I'll > rubble-ize their houses and turn their lunches into ash. I'll give > all of them nicknames that'll wither up their butts. But they, > they didn't listen, and he just grew him smaller and smaller, > > small ears and little eyes and all. By now, he's only visible to Hub- > ble. And naked eyes? They just don't even see him anymore. > > > > > Hal > > Halvard Johnson > ================ > [log in to unmask] > http://home.earthlink.net/~halvard/index.html > http://entropyandme.blogspot.com > http://imageswithoutwords.blogspot.com > http://www.hamiltonstone.org > http://home.earthlink.net/~halvard/vidalocabooks.html > -- Andrew http://hispirits.blogspot.com/ http://www.inblogs.net/hispirits http://www.flickr.com/photos/aburke/