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The Right to Life (Haiku) by Retaliate thirty-nine million
completely without healthcare
the right to life: no
one Florida veg
consuming the media
the right to life: yes
trick the middle class
diverting their attention
from real issues
Enjoin their passion
disengage their reasoning
you deceptive fucks
and yet they still vote
for you the pretend pious
they bewildered herd
Up the ladder:
Halloween
Down the ladder:
this pain
Votes: (green: user, blue: anonymous)
Arithmetic Mean: 6.3333335
Posted: October 27, 2003 4:40 PM PST; Last modified: October 27, 2003 4:40 PM PSTWeighted score: 5.3585887 Overall Rank: 3341 Comments:
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horus8 @ 24.126.116.54
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27-Oct-03/4:43 PM
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Bill Gates for Emperor of Chile!.......?
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Retaliate @ 164.67.82.153
> horus8
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27-Oct-03/4:54 PM
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Willie G. is worth the yearly GDP of Kuwait. He may have dropped out from Harvard, but he certainly graduated from Crazy Go Nuts.
herd is right, you heard right, right, they herd, right is heard.
Nice little play on how the more visible debate obscures the real, massive scale issues.
unfortunately I cannot claim these thoughts as my own, merely the words:
I think the 'bewildered herd' phrase is Noam Chomsky(?) critiquing the way those in power view the public. As for the comparison btw health care and 'that woman in Florida', that came from a law professor on CSPAN
Bewildered herd? I prefer "We the Sheeple."
thats one of the best catch phrases i have ever seen. I love it. and now im jealous of you. damn it.
Well, thanks, but I didn't coin it. I just appropriated it.
Yeah, he talked about the bewildered herd in "Media Control". Actually, in refering to your skill in drawing attention to the "big"issues, I was talking about the title- I mean, the title made it look like the poem would be about the abortion debate, but your poem pointed out that it is probably not THE MOST important thing, (even though it is worth arguing about and being passionate about) it is one that politicians fight about so often and it takes up so much time while other stuff, bigger stuff, slips by the public each day our elected officials meet. Not that we're talking about it, but you might be interested to know that the US Senate passed a bill last week that would make it illegal to perform partial birth abortions (including when it was deemed necessary by 2 different doctors for the mother's health). Contrary to what you might expect, Maine's 2 republican senators both voted against making it illegal.
The right to life..
you know, all that is completely buttfucked when you consider the right to bear arms, but i liked the poem never-the-less. Also, theres almost no other option for folks when voting- politicians here have become experts at playing monopoly. Blessed with 7.
Good, like the flow of the haikus.
They are haiku in spirit as well as syllable. The argument in the last three verses loses discipline though. None of those would stand up as a single haiku. 179 view(s)
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