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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A NOTE ON THE LATE ELECTIONS, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poet's Biography First Line: Behold, friends, once more the revolution has performed its famous Last Line: But in every drop of the rain the sailors of the potemkin wake. Subject(s): Elections; Politics & Government; Voting; Voters; Suffrage | |||
Behold, Friends, once more the Revolution has performed its famous Disappearing act! And never before has one been preceded By so many prophets! By so many holy books -- all in translation! By so many young men with long hair, so many poets with short Breath! AND the elephant bells! Oo la! And incense. And The flowers! The flowers, alas, which never found the barrel Of the gun that power grows out of. And now the President, reborn Out of the mystical body of the One and Universal Voting machine, takes off the mask. A thick and heavy Darkness, like rust, is collecting in the amplified guitars. The President with make the Airplane fly! He will make the Grateful Dead Truly grateful! The President is casting the other I Ching. . . . A hard rain is falling; the roads are icing up. But in every drop of the rain the sailors of the Potemkin wake. . . . Used with the permission of Copper Canyon Press, P.O. Box 271, Port Townsend, WA 98368-0271, www.cc.press.org | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...INAUGURATION DAY: JANUARY 1953 by ROBERT LOWELL THE DEMONSTRATION by GREGORY ORR YOUNG SAMMY'S FIRST WILD OATS by GEORGE SANTAYANA ON A GREAT ELECTION; EPIGRAM by HILAIRE BELLOC THE BIGLOW PAPERS: 3. WHAT MR. ROBINSON THINKS by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL THE COUNTRY CLERGYMAN'S TRIP TO CAMBRIDGE; ELECTION BALLAD by THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY COLORED HEROES, HARK THE BUGLE; POLITICAL by ROBERT CHARLES O'HARA BENJAMIN SUFFRAGE MARCHING-SONG by LOUIS JAMES BLOCK AN ELECTION BALLAD by ROBERT BURNS ODE FOR THE AMERICAN DEAD IN ASIA by THOMAS MCGRATH |
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