Barak Obama's Unpublished Poetry


	Barak Obama's Unpublished Poetry

zizzy

1-6-2008 1:49 PM

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zizzy says:

Pop is a long poem. Too long to clip every word.

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1-6-2008 7:19 PM

Antara

I like poets in politics!

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UNDERGROUND </STRONG></p> <P>Under water grottos, caverns</p> <P>Filled with apes</p> <P>That eat figs.</p> <P>Stepping on the figs</p> <P>That the apes</p> <P>Eat, they crunch.</p> <P>The apes howl, bare</p> <P>Their fangs, dance,</p> <P>Tumble in the</p> <P>Rushing water,</p> <P>Musty, wet pelts</p> <P><DIV>Glistening in the blue.</DIV></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/steven-barrieanthony/obamas-poetry_b_44271.html"><STRONG>POP</STRONG> 
<P>Sitting in his seat, a seat broad and broken</p> <P>In, sprinkled with ashes,</p> <P>Pop switches channels, takes another</p> <P>Shot of Seagrams, neat, and asks</p> <P>What to do with me, a green young man</p> <P>Who fails to consider the</p> <P>Flim and flam of the world, since</p> <P>Things have been easy for me;</p> <P>I stare hard at his face, a stare</p> <P>That deflects off his brow;</p> <P>I'm sure he's unaware of his</p> <P>Dark, watery eyes, that</p> <P>Glance in different directions,</p> <P>And his slow, unwelcome twitches,</p> <P>Fail to pass.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/F85F89C5-85F9-4994-9A55-3A4CE11FC56B/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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