Murray Soupcoff at the Iconoclast, regales us with Poets Against War Are Such A Bore... :
February 11, 2003: In case you didn't know it, tomorrow is 'Poets Against War' Day. We can't tell you how excited we are around here about the prospect of poets all around America gathering to read their works "as a powerful statement of public and collective resistance to the Bush administration's drive toward war in Iraq." Those nasty warmongers, George W. Bush and Donald Rumsfeld, must be quaking in their boots -- especially at the thought of tomorrow's special reading from the Poets Against the War Anthology in Lafayette Park, across from the White House. Serves Dubyah and Rummy right for trying to disarm a rogue dictatorship like Iraq through war.I'm stunned! And reminded of the poetic character brought to life by the late, lamented Ernie Kovacs. Yep it's Percy Dovetonsils:
Indeed, never has the Bush administration been under such a concerted threat than by tomorrow's poetic assault on the politics of war. If the poetry on the Poets Against the War web site is any example, some of the most pretentious, cliche-filled claptrap will be hurled against the purveyors of war in the White House on Wednesday . Forget Saddam's weapons of mass destruction. We're talking about a weapon that's even more terrible, painful and loathsome -- bad modern verse. The equivalent of one long, endless loud whine that seems to never stop. Now that's what we call a real weapon of destruction.
Don't anybody suggest that they could also take their clothes off!
