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I ws leaning toward Hillary, but I actually really like this poem Obama wrote when he was nineteen. Thanks to Catherine Daly for posting the link to it on the Poetics List:

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,

Tumble in the

Rushing water,

Musty, wet pelts

Glistening in the blue.

You know, just a little more torque and this poem would rock. It even strikes me as slightly homoerotic.

I wonder, has Hillary ever tried her hand at writing poetry?

Cyber-shtetl

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I have reserved the blog name, “Cyber-shtetl,” but I’m not sure yet for what purpose. Would any other secular Jewish poets like to have a group blog? I know, I know, as if there’s not already enough to pay attention to. Anyway.

To be artistically active among interested peers

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To be artistically active among interested peers, some of whom would collaborate, agreeing to engage in preposterous and highly idiosyncratic processes of composition together — to be able to play so vigorously, deliberately, and concertedly, while we intuited and dreamed and reasoned argued and distorted among ourselves the terms and values for the choices and excitement we participated in — this experience realized a dream gestated in childhood, born in adolescence, and now found active in an everyday life no longer academic.

Steve Benson, in The Grand Piano Vol II, p. 30