Blogs Jan 22, 2009 at 2:00 pm

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1
The poem was fine. It was definitely not of the same calibre as "On the Pulse of Morning" read by Maya Angelou for Clinton. I didn't like her voice. The cadence was off or I just couldn't fall into it.
2
I personally liked the poem, especially in comparison to prior poems by Poet Laureates of the last 20 years.

But I'm still dissapointed that only the Daily Show showed how many people actually booed Bush and portrayed a far more civil and polite society of MILLIONS OF AMERICANS than we actually are.
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Thanks for your post about the poem. I was surprised how many people criticized it or didn't understand it (or didn't even bother to listen). I thought classical music was going extinct, but poetry seems to be a dead language already....
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yeah! i felt her attention to words was overlooked.
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ha! I felt the exact same thing when I was leaving the Mall too! I was sort of consumed with lighting a cigarette, deciding where the exit might be and gasping at all the stupid litter when I finally listened and heard those exact same lines, especially "any sentence begun". It left me to linger for a moment. I read it later in print and I wasn't that impressed. But, at that moment, it was a nice addition.

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