My son told me that in his Honors English class today (8th grade), they studied EA's inaugural poem.
I asked him if they had studied any other poems this year.
Nope. Just that one.
I asked him what his teacher thought of the poem.
She thought it utterly Brilliant.
I imagine this going on in classrooms all across the nation.
All eyes and ears spanning the world were in a position to receive a poem, and instead were given:
We cross dirt roads and highways that mark the will of someone
and then others who said, "I need to see what's on the other side;
I know there's something better down the road."
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What an enormous missed opportunity for the art.
But we're supposed to be thrilled that poetry was represented at all..
I don't think so. Better no poetry than bad poetry.
Shame on yer, Barack.
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