Lonely Planet™ · Thorn Tree Forum · 2020

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The Poetry of Sarah Palin

Hart Seely at Slate had the Copernican insight on how to understand the 'Pub Veep pick's "verbiage": trade in your boring pre-frontal logic for exciting limbic emotion.

Don't parse the prose like a damn egghead; just grok on the rhythm and feeling.

A personal favorite.

Haiku
These corporations.
Today it was AIG,
Important call, there.

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Secret Conversation
I asked President Karzai,
"Is that what you are seeking, also?
"That strategy that has worked in Iraq?
"That John McCain had pushed for?
"More troops?
"A counterinsurgency strategy?

And he said, "Yes."

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