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In reply to the discussion: Donald Trump's inauguration poem describes Barack Obama as a 'tyrant' [View all]haele
(15,235 posts)Did someone get the extra-large box of refrigerator magnets over the holidays to write this word salad?
Blah-bla-bla, Blah-bla-bla, Blah-bla-bla, Blah-bla.
Okay, the meter and rhyme endings scan - like any halfway decent fifth grade "introduction to poetry" exercise would, but any imagery that can be teased out of this mess is bouncing all over the place like a game of dodge ball during afternoon recess - and like a recess dodge ball game, there's no point to it. Just a bunch of shallow conservative talking points pasted together higglty-pigglety with some faux "He-landers" affectation to glue it all together - with no conclusion.
Because I suspect this might be a "6am on the day it's due" throw-together effort, I'd give the author a "D". And not just because it's conservative talking points and Donald "MacLeod" (see, he couldn't even name the goon). Even if it was a poem about saving the dolphins and trees - it's a train wreck of a poem on the level of something my five-year-old grandchild would attempt.
WTF does that this whole thing mean, McKensie? What poetic vision are you leading your readers to?
You're ending this thing on on "For, a woman's first right is the right to be born - Now the bonnie young lassies that fly to the crowd - have a champion in Domhnall, the best of MacLeod!?" -
- So did you actually intend to close on what essentially can be interpreted as "You ladies need to keep your babies, and you young girls need to be accept being protected by the "Pu**y-grabber" in chief? Not some rousing "Make America Great Again" lines, or some "he will protect us all from enemies, foreign and domestic?" You end your poem on the imagery of submissive women?
Hmmm?
Or is this your version of an Onion submission?
Haele