Pretty close, Ken, the quote - 2 lines :
"and the Republic summons Ike,
the mausoleum in her heart."
Is your girlfriend by any chance quoting that lady who was getting her
head chopped off during the Tudor period - the headsman missed her neck
& sliced off a piece of her head, whereupon she raised her head and said
"Can..." I read this years ago in some history of British execution &
torture.
The better half of the US American nation has my profoundest sympathy.
Couldn't you secede?
mj
Ken Wolman wrote:
> Inauguration Day 2005
>
> I went looking for Lowell's
> "Inauguration Day, 1953" with
> its I'd-die-to-have-written final line
> "The Republic summons Ike, the mausoleum in her heart,"
> which I probably misquoted anyway,
> but the damn thing's not on any online repository,
> and even if you think the poem's a suppository
> it's the perfect day to print it out
> contemplate the horror, the hoo-hah,
> that today Ike looks like Socrates
> when he's stood up against...whatever it is.
>
> My girlfriend's fond of saying, at the end
> of a day she'd rather not have had,
> "Can I go home now?"
> And--ritually--I remind her she IS at home,
> to which she replies
> "Oh...yeah...shit."
>
> Can I go home now?
>
> Ken/Inauguration Thursday 2005
> (Shine, perishing Republic)
>
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