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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif;color:#003300">Sorry I could not make it today over to our Bull-twaddling panel on “free speech on campus” by our professional Illinois/Yale Law bull-twaddlers from
the Illinois/Yale Mafia Schools of Law. So I cannot make a comment on it.But in lieu thereof, and speaking of bull-twaddle I thought I would send you this poem and coda I wrote in honor of our Disgraced, Fired and ABA-sanctioned NeoCon Bull-Twaddling Dean
Hurricane Heidi Hurd. Ditto for our Disgraced, Fired and ABA-Sanctioned Illinois/Yale Law Mafia Bull-Twaddling Dean Uncle Brucie Smith. Enjoy! Fab.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif;color:#993366">Coda<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif;color:#993366"><o:p><span style="text-decoration:none"> </span></o:p></span></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif;color:#993366">Ringling has now retired their elephants<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif;color:#993366">No more krapping elephant stampedes<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif;color:#993366">But our 2 krapping ex-Deans still remain<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif;color:#993366">Stinking up the place<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif;color:#993366">Alas! On both counts!<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif;color:#993366"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif;color:#993366">Krapping elephants amused me as a kid<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif;color:#993366">But krapping ex-law-deans today do not<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif;color:#993366">They should go stink up somewhere else<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif;color:#993366">For both are all krapped out her</span></b><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif;color:#003300">e.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span style="font-size:16.0pt">The Elephant Stampede</span></u></b><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt"><br>
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</span></b><b><span style="font-size:24.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif;color:#003300"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt">When I was a young boy<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt">Every year with my Dad<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt">We would go to see<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt">The Ringling Brothers, Barnum and Bailey Circus<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt">At the Old Amphitheater<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt">Three Rings<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt">At the end of the show<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt">Came their famous elephant stampede<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt">All the pachyderms would li<span style="color:#1F497D">n</span>e up in a row<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt">With scantily clad young women on top<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt">And at the appointed time<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt">With their trunks they would grasp<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt">The tails of the elephants in front<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt">And rumble around all 3 rings<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt">Like an earthquake<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt">The band played on<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt">The girls riding bareback<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt">But elephants are an incontinent lot<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt">Pissing and crapping as they plodded along<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt">So at the rear of each pach<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt">Was a man dressed as a janitor<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt">With a metal garbage can on wheelies<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt">And a coal shovel.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt">So as each animal would crap<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt">Its man would reach in with his shovel<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt">And scoop it right out<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt">And plop the poop in the can<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt">Before the next elephant stomped on it<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt">Magnificently choreographed for all to see<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt">A Ballet of elephants and men and poop on a scoop<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt">But every once in a while<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt">The man could not get in there on time<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt">And so the next elephant would stomp<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt">On a dropped pile of shit<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt">That would splat around the Old Amphitheater<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt">I am reminded of this childhood spectacle<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt">Now at the start of my 38<sup>th</sup> year here<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt">At the college of law<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt">After eleven years of Deans Hurd and Smith<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt">Dropping their crap all around<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt">These Ivy bedecked halls<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt">In two separate scandals<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt">One after the other<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt">Up to our necks in their crap<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt">Who is going to scoop it all up?<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt">Where are we going to put it?<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt">Or will we just let it ferment?<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt">As it wafts up our nostrils<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt">As it has done all these years<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt">Onward and upward<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt">To our brains<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt">Now fermented in shit<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt">For well over a decade.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt">Here’s to Deans Hurd and Smith<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt">Long may they live<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt">In the Annals of College of Law Shit<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt">Fab<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><b><i>Francis A. Boyle<o:p></o:p></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><b><i>Law Building<o:p></o:p></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><b><i>504 E. Pennsylvania Ave.<o:p></o:p></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><b><i>Champaign, IL 61820 USA<o:p></o:p></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><b><i>217-333-7954 (phone)<o:p></o:p></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><b><i>217-244-1478 (fax)<o:p></o:p></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><b><i>(personal comments only)<o:p></o:p></i></b></p>
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