Click The Punk who would be President for Garrison Keillor’s piece on Donald Trump’s presidential aspirations.
This is too good to miss.
“He is a thug and he doesn’t bother to hide it. The only greatness he knows about is himself.
So the country is put to a historic test. If the man is not defeated, then we are not the country we imagine we are.”
- Garrison Keillor
Eugene Field
is Spinning in his Grave
The computer, smartphone, and iPad too
Are all that this child could want.
With Clash of Clans, and Auto-Theft 2,
I’ll always be so smart
School studies can suffer–no homework tonight–
I might watch a little TV,
But my brain is exploding, I’m feeling all right,
There’s nothing the matter with me,
I’m happy as I can be:
With computer,
Smartphone
And Pad.
Now Mother and Father will sputter and fuss–
They don’t understand at all.
For Granny and Gramps said, “Read! You Must!
Or all your grades will fall!”
But we take exams on computers at school,
No notes, but txts we snd!
The Principal axed the No Gizmos rule
So our school-wide strike would end–
“Unions Forever, my friend!”
With computer,
Smartphone,
And Pad!
Steve Shoemaker wrote this in response to Wallace Stevens’ poem “What Is Divinity” posted today on The Writer’s Almanac with Garrison Keillor. Click HERE for the Wallace Stevens poem and the Stevens’ bio posted today on The Writer’s Almanac.
What Divinity Is
(A response to Wallace Stevens)
…
The Madonna who pulls back just enough
of swaddling cloth to show the Magi what
had bled so recently on our behalf.
The twelve-year-old who finds a place to sit
among the wise (but disobedient
to both his searching, mystified parents.)
The young man with the twelve who heals, confronts
the proud, turns water into wine, asks who
is without sin? The one who shows the way
right here on earth to live in peace with neighbors,
enemies even…a human who
took bread and fish and shared it with the crowd…
the man who died alone crying for God.
– Steve Shoemaker, Urbana, IL, Oct. 2, 2012
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