[Newspoetry] Snarks in Iraq

[William Gillespie]

They sought it with flashbulbs, they sought it with ink
They sought it with bartabs and ice
They sought it by weeding out reasons to think
They sought it with spin and with vice

When the candidate turned to the camera and frowned
A sad story he started to tell
But Jim Lehrer cried "Silence! Not even a sound!
Let's listen instead to the people around"
And the cameras turned inwards and showed in their lens
All the people who stared at their screens
Republicans, Democrats, enemies, friends
And each, in turn, spoke for three minutes
Each American citizen that is
And the rhyme scheme broke down and
The candidates just listened



On Thursday, October 7, 2004, at 04:26 PM, John Newmark wrote:

> NOW I understand
> There ARE Snarks in Iraq.
> But they're Boojums.
> And whenever someone finds a Snark, they simply disappear.
> It's all Lewis Carroll's fault!
>
>           549"It's a Snark!" was the sound that first came to their 
> ears,
>           550    And seemed almost too good to be true.
>           551Then followed a torrent of laughter and cheers:
>           552    Then the ominous words "It's a Boo-"
>
>
>           553Then, silence. Some fancied they heard in the air
>           554    A weary and wandering sigh
>           555Then sounded like "-jum!" but the others declare
>           556    It was only a breeze that went by.
>
>
>           557They hunted till darkness came on, but they found
>           558    Not a button, or feather, or mark,
>           559By which they could tell that they stood on the ground
>           560    Where the Baker had met with the Snark.
>
>
>           561In the midst of the word he was trying to say,
>           562    In the midst of his laughter and glee,
>           563He had softly and suddenly vanished away---
>           564    For the Snark was a Boojum, you see.
>
> -- 
> John Newmark
> gavroche at gmail.com
>
> On Thu, 7 Oct 2004 15:03:12 q-0500, emerick at chorus.net
> <emerick at chorus.net> wrote:
>
>> Basically, there were no snarks in Iraq, never have been for years, 
>> and no snark production facilities or programs of any kind had any 
>> but the most minute existence -- but we still think Saddam dreamed 
>> about having snarks, and talked about them constantly.
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