21.04.05
Ambassadorial Ambiguity
The Battle over Bolton bogs down
as allegations of boorishness crop up.
Democrats surely want his nomination stopped,
but do Republicans really care?
If Democrats achieve a victory,
some may hesitate to fight the filibuster rule.
And keeping Bolton’s character in play,
helps divert the spotlight from DeLay.
Dear Ken, I looked at the e mail address on the bottom of the poem “Semantics” that you read yesterday at Sunday poets, and discovered that with my stronger glasses on it reads “politry”, not poetry as I had assumed at our get together. I searched the five dictionaries in my home, including the OED, and found no such word, as you of course know. How clever of you to create the perfect amalgam of the word for the ultimate in the language arts and the word for hoped-for- goverment-for civility. But then perhaps I am naive in that I may be mistaken about the definition of the second word, which may only mean neutrally “a politically organized unit”. But then one can always hope for the best in our collective organized efforts, wars aside. Your new word really does merit the attention of the OED. See you next month at Sunday Poets. Chris Hall
comment at 02. May 2005