Comments | skonen_blades: VOTE

skonen_blades

VOTE

Oct 04, 2008 21:14

(My submission to Sean McGarragle's "Stephen Harper Poems" page on facebook ( Read more... )

harper, politics, vote, poem, poetry

Comments 16

molasses October 5 2008, 04:30:44 UTC

♥

skonen_blades October 5 2008, 04:32:06 UTC

I'm home sick today. This was a tremendously fun way to listen to the rain outside. : ) Thank you Sean McGarragle!

molasses October 5 2008, 04:34:05 UTC

my sister and nephew are visiting from Courtenay. we went to Maplewood farm and hugged goats.

it was a tremendously excellent day, start to finish.
(plus, oopsy, the red pen on my kitchen wall is permanent, crazy little artist).

hope you feel better!
and the rain was delicious.

kindelingboy October 5 2008, 06:41:43 UTC

This was fantastic.

skonen_blades October 5 2008, 09:13:31 UTC

Thank you.

morbid_curious October 5 2008, 07:09:48 UTC

Masterful.
(s/Haper/Harper/; on the penultimate line, though.)

skonen_blades October 5 2008, 09:13:13 UTC

Whoops! Cheers.

swingland October 5 2008, 11:25:14 UTC

i guess every country has their blood thirsty criminals in office, but somehow, between the beauty of your words and their meaning, i get the ominous feeling that my fellows to the north struggle with an equally corrupt public office.

skonen_blades October 5 2008, 18:09:27 UTC

Yeah. I don't know if I'd call him equally corrupt but maybe he just doesn't have the army and the population to put on the show that my fellows to the south are getting. Either way, there hasn't been this much "screw the poor, let's make some cash" shenanigans since Mulroney, Thatcher and Reagan were all in power at the same time.

I'm truly freaked out. I heard someone say yesterday that "If Obama gets in, it'll be a bad day for white people." and I couldn't believe my ears. I think the world is sliding towards a bad place and that McCain/Palin are going to make Bush look like a kindly grandfather with a mean streak. We'll see. I wish I could vote down there.

swingland October 6 2008, 00:00:31 UTC

yep. the forecast outside is severe chance of shitty precipitation with temperatures set to drop as hell is expected to freeze over.

i'm voting. i don't know what amount of offset that will be, but it's there.

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skonen_blades October 5 2008, 18:12:23 UTC

Thank you, old chum. I appreciate what you're 'laying down' as the kids do say these days. You're dead right about the meter on the 'canna-DUH' thing that I was attempting. Perhaps I'll give another combination of words a go, eh, what? In any case, sire, thank you for your gracious praise.

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skonen_blades October 6 2008, 08:53:23 UTC

Perhaps I could pull it off with a Quebecois fronsh ackSAHNtuh and put the emPHAsis on the wrong syLLAble.