Tower of Sleep

This is a poem for President Drone

michaelrobbinspoet:

So Yahoo! News has told me they cannot publish the inaugural poem for Obama they commissioned from me (& from Paul Muldoon, Kevin Young, Brenda Shaughnessy, & James Franco), because it contains the word “queef.” I would drone (ha!) on about the complete idiocy of a society in which any moron can purchase an assault rifle but a tiny vulgar word is considered too dangerous, but instead, I’m just going to post the poem here. I hope you like it.

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To the Drone Vaguely Realizing Eastward

This is a poem for President Drone.
It was written by a camel.
Can I borrow your phone?
This is for President Mark Hamill.

Newtown sounds a red alert.
Mark Hamill asks is Ernie burnt?
Every camel’s a first-person shooter.
The Prez’s fez is haute couture.

It seems strange that he should be offended.
The same orders are given by him.
Paging Pakistan and Yemen.
Calling all the drone-dead children.

The camel can’t come to the phone.
This is for the drone-in-chief.
Mumbai used to be Bombay.
The bomb bay opens with a queef.

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   this century so far,

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