America, America, Burning Bright
The Republican Speaks of Jungles
The presidential election continues to bring forth policy promises and attempts at soul-bearing honesty. LAUREN FREY takes a look at what they really meant to say.
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The Republican Speaks of Jungles
I’ve known jungles:I’ve known jungles tangled as the House and older than the
flow of my own blood in my own veins.
My hair has grown grey unlike jungles.
I never bathed in Hanoi; no dawn felt young.
I had no hut to protect me; fatigue forced me to sleep
I looked upon the green and raised my spirits above it.
I heard the chanting of the hippies when Richard Nixon
went down to Washington, and I’ve seen their muddy
bosoms turn all golden in the sunset.
I’ve known jungles:
Tangled, aging jungles.
My hair has grown grey unlike jungles.
Clinton’s Campaign Debt Is Tough to Repay
We have squanderedtwelve million
that you kindly
loaned us
and which
you were probably
thinking
you’d get back
Forgive us
we were ambitious
got beat
so we fold
—Published July 3, 2008
