Neighbours & Fences

If it's me, I'd like one more round
with the lights turned down,
and not a sound,
escaping our lips while we try to escape,
lying quietly
contemplating eternity
and what it means to be an open sore
weeping on the streets
of concrete jungles with nothing
but a paper cup, or an over-turned hat
collecting pity from the passers by.
They'd ask themselves why
doesn't he just move,
without stopping to ask him
why he's stopped.
If it's me, I'd call it like it is,
just another tragic game of
neighbours and fences.

Sarah Palin is a political jockey looking for a better horse

If the way she carried herself in the 2008 presidential campaign wasn't evidence enough, Sarah Palin's recent announcement that she's stepping down to concentrate on a 2012 run for the nation's top job more than proves she's nothing more than a political jockey looking for a better horse.

All throughout the 2008 campaign - and this is all I'll mention because kicking a dead horse isn't fair - it seemed that Sarah Palin was confused as to which job she was on the ticket for.  She was vying for Vice President, but President looked so much better.  And the nation took the 'she's a heartbeat away from the Oval Office' seriously because John McCain's an old warhorse - whose probably more effective in Congress than in the White House, anyway - and looked like he was ready to keel over (sorry John).

I side with those who called her nomination for Vice President like it was, part symbolic gesture, part appearance-on-the-ticket-necessity.  That was then.

In the end Sarah Palin is counting her chickens before they hatch.  Leaving a Governorship merely 8 months after the last general election in order to place herself as the front runner is only a mechanism of distraction.  The public has heard about misuse of Alaskan tax dollars, misuse of campaign funds, passing off complete ineptness as folksy, and of course, the Tina Fey skits.  

By announcing this, Palin is attempting to polish her image in the eyes of the American people by projecting one of readiness, goal-oriented, and perhaps in her twisted logic, leadership.  Will it work, not if Bobby Jindal has anything to say about it. 

 

Campaign Talk

Hi, I’m Jon Thomas, but some people call me Dick.

Dick?

As in Van Dyck --

Van Dyck, try as in Head.

They don’t talk about me behind my back do they?

Sir, not only do they talk about you behind your back, but they do it on television, on the radio, and, on the front page of my morning paper. Why are you talking to them, before talking to me?

You think I’m new at this? Don’t be stupid...this is my fifth trip around the sun.

Yeah?  Well, you’ve been getting too familiar with the scenery.

I appreicate the enthusiam of the voters.

That’s nice...enthusiam...Stop taking in girls from the press gaggles. 

Why?

Because somebody’s gonna notice, and they all have video cameras, and they all want to tell the public something they don’t know.  

Are you pissed?

The veins of my forehead have turned into the mighty Colorado, what gave it away?

I’m telling you, you’re going to pass out.  Your face is turning all red.  

No it isn’t.  Stop looking at it.  Do I look over your shoulder while you’re trying to take a piss?  Get off me...Jesus!

Listen, how bout we sit for a minute, eh.  Maybe, grab a drink...calm down a little.  You’re shaking.

It’ll go away. 

Yeah, well so did my mother-in law, but she had to fall down a flight of stairs first.  

Ouch. 

Not that hard head.  Damn she was an idiot. 

No, sir, we’ve wandered far from the point.

Which was?

  Stop saying ‘and some people call me Dick.’

I heard you, and I asked you why.

Because it makes people think about why some people would call you a dick, and we need people thinking you’re a hero.  NOT a dick.  Get it?

Yeah.  I get it.

Jesus

I heard that.

If I didn’t mean you to, I would have said it quietly.