Business & Poem

First and foremost, I need to thank a few bloggers for doing wonderful write-ups about my Karl Rove book.

Thank you Kate.

Thank you Collin.

I really appreciate what you have done for me, and I am happy you liked the book enough to post about it on your blogs. Please let me know when I can repay your kindness.

If any of you are curious to see what they are talking about, then click here at: Dear Mr. Rove: 32 Letters to Karl Rove


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Why I am not a Political Operative

with apologies to Frank O'Hara


I am not a political operative, I am a poet.
Why? I think I would rather be
a political operative, but I am not. Well,

for instance, Karl Rove
is starting a campaign. I drop in.
"Sit down and have a drink" he
says. I drink; we drink. I look
up. "You have RHETORIC in it."
"Yes, it needed something there."
"Oh." I go and the days go by
and I drop in again. The campaign
is going on, and I go, and the days
go by. I drop in. The primary is
finished. "Where's the SUBSTANCE?"
All that's left is just
sound bites, "It was too much," Karl says.

But me? One day I am thinking of
the ocean. I write a line
about the sea. Pretty soon it is a
whole page of words, not lines.
Then another page. There should be
so much more, not of ocean, of
words, of how terrible the ocean is
and life. Days go by. It is even in
prose, I am a real poet. My poem
is finished and I haven't mentioned
the ocean yet. It's twelve poems, I call
it OCEANA MAGNUS. And one day in a scandal
I see Karl's candidate, called LIAR.


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Poem (What I Think)

I think one of the best songs
written in the 1980's
has to be "I Against Osborn"
by the Dead Milkmen. How else
can you explain that level
of prognostication?

I think the best movie ever
is Evil Dead II. You just can't beat
cutting off your own hand
then spending the rest of the film
locked in a battle of kill
or be killed. Hell yeah!

I think the best book written
in the 20th Century is Ulysses
by James Joyce. I've never read it
but I keep hearing about it from
people whose opinion I respect.
Just take my word for it.