And the poltroon has been succeeded by the moron. It
made me even more heartsick to see Bush mouthing his
stupid speech with the usual mindless "school-play" expression on his face---his handlers must have said,
Look concerned. I was wondering which president would
be best to have in charge at such a time: not Clinton certainly, nor Bush (the other draft-dodger), nor
Carter, nor Reagan...Jesus, you'd have to go all the
way back to Eisenhower or Truman.
I also thought of that wonderful line in Justice's
pantoum about the Great Depression, "Thank God no one
said anything in verse," hoping that nobody would say anything now, but damned if I didn't find two really wretched poems on my email screen this morning, one
by Stephen Dunn and one by William Meredith. Both of
them have written some good things at one time or
another, but my God, the arrogance ---to think you
could sit down and on the spur of the moment grind out something adequate to the event.
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