Tracing Obama's literary ascent is complicated by what Politico.com calls a "scant paper trail." That trail begins at Occidental College whose literary magazine published two of Obama's poems -- "Pop" and "Underground" -- in 1981. Obama calls it some "very bad poetry," and he does not sell himself short. From "Underground":
Under water grottos, caverns
Filled with apes
That eat figs.
Stepping on the figs
That the apes
Eat, they crunch.
The apes howl, bare
Their fangs, dance . . .
Are you kidding me? This poem from the same guy who wrote the memoirs?
Oh... If you didn't know Bill Ayers is an ENGLISH PROFESSOR!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Only a complete and utter dipshit would think that the ability (or lack thereof) to write poetry should imply that a person would be unable to write prose.
Never mind that most creative people have at least one bit of undergraduate doggerel to hang their hats on.
"Once upon a time, dinosaurs didn't have families. They lived in the woods and ate their children. It was a golden age."
—Earl Sinclair
"I do have respect for authority even though I throw jelly dicks at them.
BSmack wrote:Only a complete and utter dipshit would think that the ability (or lack thereof) to write poetry should imply that a person would be unable to write prose.
Never mind that most creative people have at least one bit of undergraduate doggerel to hang their hats on.
To quote Thomas Brackett Reed: "They never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of human knowledge."
