Word: poem
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...least a few Democrats seem to have become impatient with the governor's indecisive stance. One man, standing next to a dozen Cuomo supporters with campaign signs, displayed a poster carrying a poem directed to Cuomo...
...poem's last four lines read, "In or out, you egotistical tot; take a shit...
This is becoming a familiar line: "The cold war is over, and Japan won." Much of the rationale for America's global military role is gone, and the U.S. must now find a new place in a complex world economy. Robert Frost once wrote a poem called The Oven Bird: "The question that he frames in all but words/ Is what to make of a diminished thing." America, still the most powerful economy, nonetheless feels itself to be somehow the diminished thing...
When Theodor Adorno read Celan's poem, he proclaimed that "After Auschwitz, poetry is barbaric." The problem, he felt, was that it was impossible to talk about the Holocaust without depriving it of its meaning, its force, its incomprehensibility. But he also knew it was impossible not to talk about the Holocaust and that doing so was to side with those who did nothing to stop it, with the people who claimed to have no idea of the camps just over the hill...
...everyone else who's still reading this poem...