Another poetic gem from TMV’s favorite poet, Michael Silverstein, aka Wall Street Poet:
Think tank neocons. Pentagon advisors. Intel analysts. Senators with presidential ambitions. As the full idiocy of our Iraq adventure has finally become clear, inside the Beltway the big question is: Who’s gonna take the political fall for this disaster?
Iraq Blaming
Beyond sad
Beyond bad
It was mad
We’ve all been had.
Out of luck
Firmly stuck
In the muck
All options suck.
This pit of shame
Won’t easy drain
So perps new aim:
Re-frame the blame.
Copyright 2006 Michael Silverstein
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.