[Newspoetry] Elephant

[William at Spineless Books]

Don,

If I'm reading your poetry correctly, I also read Lakoff's Don't Think 
of an Elephant. I dug it.

In the end it's mostly a book to help Democrats write better speeches, 
maybe poems; it seems to be more about winning elections than 
implementing good policies after winning them, but, that said, I found 
it tickled my cortex and made some deep sense.

I read the first version of his Moral Politics, and liked it but 
thought it should have been a pamphlet (like Elephant). I'm curious to 
know if the second edition has more teeth.

He also revised his extraordinary essay The Metaphor System Used to 
Justify War in the Gulf for 2003, but the revision seemed declawed. 
Both are online, and are newspoetry material.

Keep the news fires burning,
William


On Oct 1, 2005, at 12:28 AM, DL Emerick wrote:

> STOP THE NEWSPOETRY PRESSES!!!!
>
> Yes, dear readers,
> we stopped our giant run,
> costing us untold millions,
> just so we could observe
> the prime tenets of newspoetry,
> our ethical inheritance,
> what makes us different
> from every other blog
> purporting to be newspoetry.
>
> We planned to run as our lead
> the story of the true Bush,
> who holds phones to his ear,
> upside down, and does not notice.
>
> But, our senior correspondent,
> John Newmark quickly detected a spoof.
> This can't be true, he said,
> and sure enough, he found
> snopes.com carried the truth:
> the White House manages all news,
> especially photo op shots in WH.
>
> No picture like that was ever taken,
> it's a fraud, a doctored thing.
>
> Senior WH spokesperson said:
> Look we don't let pictures like that
> leave the WH, we confiscate them.
>
> Why Bush has even held
> a staple gun to his ear,
> and wondered why no one was talking.
>
> There are no pictures of that,
> we cover his hideous ass,
> so you never get to see it.
>
> We only want the world
> to think well of Bush --
> and we tell every reporter here,
> look if you make him look real,
> I mean, er, bad,
> then you won't get to come here,
> no more press conferences for you,
> and certainly no more Air Force 1 rides.
>
> You'll be out of work,
> unable to talk to anyone,
> here in WhiteWash DC.
>
> He grinned sardonically,
> and, by the way,
> I didn't say any of this.
>
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Onwerd,
William

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