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Obama's Poetry Slam With the ACLU
OBAMA:
After such knowledge, what forgiveness?
ACLU:
Virtues
Are forced upon us by our impudent crimes.
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Did you write this? It's brilliant.
May 15, 2009 10:46 AM | Reply | Permalink
Brilliant it is, but these lines are from T.S. Eliot's "Gerontion."
I wanted to commemorate Obama's recent 'poetry jam' with the most apposite lines I could find.
May 15, 2009 4:57 PM | Reply | Permalink