Palin’s a Poet?

Here’s Julian Gough:

Here she is, in a work I have taken to calling “The Relevance of Africa.” (Not a single word or comma has been changed, but the line breaks are placed where they naturally fall.) In it, Palin blends the energy of free verse with the austerity of a classic 14-line sonnet.

It reads: “And the relevance to me /With that issue, /As we spoke /About Africa and some /Of the countries /There that were /Kind of the people succumbing /To the dictators /And the corruption /Of some collapsed governments /On the /Continent, /The relevance /Was Alaska’s.”

I think if we are to recognize Palin, we need to remember Miss Teen USA South Carolina, who created this riff, which I am taking the liberty of titling “I personally believe: to build up our future”

I personally believe that 

US Americans are unable to do so

because some people out there in our nation 

don’t have maps 

and I believe that our education 

such as South Africa 

and the Iraq, 

everywhere like 

such as 

and I believe that they should 

our education over here in the US 

should help the US or 

should help South Africa 

it should help the Iraq and 

the Asian countries 

so we will be able to build up our future. 

And what about this from the famous poet G.W. Bush:

They know our position,

the world knows our position and

I clarified it at the United Nations

Wolf my judgement is

You have to take everybody’s word

seriously in this world. Again

you can’t just hope for the best.

And here we were thinking that these people were just incoherent dodo heads, when it turns out they were speaking pure poetry. Glad that got cleared up.