[Newspoetry] U.S. poet laureate invokes troubling metaphor

Joe Futrelle futrelle at ncsa.uiuc.edu
Tue Sep 11 15:11:58 CDT 2001


On Tue, Sep 11, 2001 at 03:05:35PM -0500, Mike Lehman wrote:
> I propose the gender-specific term that I think applies in this case
> bets.
> 
> "America was circumcised."

That's more apt.  Why aren't you the U.S. poet laureate?

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Joe Futrelle
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