Limericks in reaction to the news
 

Verse news at Slate.

Unbelievably vile policy - but, alas, not very good limericks.

Vile is Trump's middle name.
I quite like the lines "But our motives aren't tribal, / They're inspired by the Bible."
Also yes, Nielsen's tweet is a neat example of chutzpah or cojones.

Cheers,
John

I think Dessem has a nice way with an awkward rhyme, but mostly, since, as Moore says, "there are things that are important beyond all this fiddle," to find verse in an extra-literary context like this I find very validating.

How can these sons-of-bitches live with themselves? I am so happy that I am old enough to have spent most of my life - and done my travelling - many years ago, in a world where you were proud to be an American. If you want to be truly depressed listen to this, and read this https://www.politico.com/story/2018/...idterms-652246 Stephen Miller is the Joseph Goebbels of America.

Michael: "Stephen Miller is the Joseph Goebbels of America."

Yes.

I'm afraid, Michael, that 'living with themselves' - and with themselves alone - appears to be the actual objective of these misbegotten monsters. Your misery about America's image matches that of many in Britain. There has never been, on both sides of the pond, such an unsavoury collection of politicians. I long for escape back into Europe in an independent Scotland - but from the world these knaves are making, I fear escape will be impossible for many years to come.

"The immigrant threat must be banished,
Even if a few toddlers get vanished.
If their parents had cared,
They would never have dared,
To have come over here speaking Spanish"

OMG, this one made my day! They are all great on the whole, but this one really took the cake.

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Walter, What are you talking about? That sounds confrontational, and I don't mean it so. I don't know what you're referring to and would like to understand...

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Is this a limerick?
I found it over in the Nemerov can.

Odds are there is another you; like you
in every way except that he does scotch
and you the gin, and unlike you he flew
the coup and is content to sit watch
just like before (you know the time) her scream
(such days, back then) beneath the music's din.
You held her down (to cheer you on he left his seat)
reflect on what might be if chance had been
dealt differenty. You could do time as twins.
Now live, you demonstrate that same man kind
in ways we understand. Defend your sins
to your familiars, "Lies!". They’ll talk and find
– as a mirror slowly sings before their eyes –
a shared affection for possession, “Mine".

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Limericks? For these political times? Not sure they do the job.

I might have glossed some of the lines with the new information from the author. It isn't a translation. It is a version.

I've had several PMs, and the Mods have received a 'Reported Post', from members who are not happy with the way this thread is progressing, so I have to say something.

Can we keep to the original discussion please, and leave Robert Crawford (who is not a Spherean, btw) out of it? If anyone wants to post their own limericks in reaction to the news I will move the thread to Drills and Amusements (a reminder that members' own work is not permitted on a GT thread).

Thank you.

Jayne

That's fine! Now that it is known it cannot be un-known.

Not happy with the thread progression? Poor dears. I came in late and got confused. I thought the thread had become about the progression of misogyny allied with oligarchy. But if the very threads progression is what is in danger, why that there is much more serious. Please, go back to the original silence that was the thread before it got carried away. Silence is just(er) golden.

To be fair, the substantial TradCath presence in form poetry is making similar noises, for similar reasons.

To Owrn and everyone else: just a reminder that posting ad hominen attacks at Eratosphere is prohibited per Eratosphere's guidelines. Please, keep that in mind since repeat offenders will be dealt with per the applicable sanctions!

...Alex

What is TradCath form poetry? :confused:

I just Googled it, Cathy, as I wondered too. It's short for Traditionalist Catholic(ism).

Jayne