Nobody 859

Sunday, March 27, 2011

Nobody # 859

Nobody Asked Me But:

That Was The Week That Was – As always, each of these short verses is based on a news event that happened during the past week.

America joined in the fight last week

It’s a matter of national pride

By the rockets red glare

Let tyrants beware

Especially if they’re not on our side

The Pres says we fight for humanity

Whatever he tells us we’ll buy

But here is the deal

He must make it real

And not just another Bush-lie

Obama’s critics in Congress

Say he’s acted too slow or too fast

Before all this fuss

He should have asked us

Though our responses are always half-assed

Was Barack’s decision the right one

Many in Congress say nope

But this headline shouts out

That’s he’s right there’s no doubt

“Libyans trade fear for hope”

From India to Israel with Palin

This journey could settle her fate

Should Hillary quit

Would she be a fit

Will Barack make Sarah Sec. State

Trump will again screw Gaddafi

He’ll treat him like someone he’s hired

If The Donald’s elected

Says he can be expected

To tell Muammar, “Man you are fired”

Tiger’s new girlfriend is a blonde 22

Let’s hope she has someone to warn her

Despite all the fun

His real number one

Is the club to get round Amen Corner

Virgil Peck wants to shoot all illegals

In Kansas let’s take out a gun

Says in his state

Boring can grate

So that’s how we’ll have us some fun

They are planning a Dick Cheney series

It seems they will name it Dark Side

But if pleased he’s not

Here comes the buckshot

They’d better have someplace to hide

They’re cracking down hard on the players

But coaches don’t have the same fate

They must commit vice

While standing on ice

Because almost all of them skate

Oh magic mirror on the wall

Of all who was the fairest one

Elizabeth it was by far

Taylor made to be a star

For beauty, peers she had none

Even as a child co-staring with a dog

Liz Taylor was totally nifty

$100 a week per

Was given to her

But Lassie was paid $250

The majority still puts down health law

For the Demos this cuts to the quick

So Obama beware

Don’t show that you care

Some people are better off sick

Jen Zuniga was caught on the video

Urging her son on to fight

Smash him, she cried

Where is your pride

If you win I’ll cook dinner tonight

It was 100-years ago today (March 25)

At the shirtwaist fire trap

Where very many women died

And afterwards pro-business cried

New regs will wipe us right off the map

The Arizona Senate just passed a new law

No college group must accept others

So I’ll eat lunch

With my neo-Nazi bunch

But we don’t want any gays, Jews or brothers

Barry Bonds was using steroids, please

You all my illusions wreck

I thought it chance

A genetic dance

That Barry has almost no neck

He had few peers as a basketball coach

Yet much good was offset by his sins

But Bobby Knight

Sure got this one right

Dumb looses more games than smart wins

There once was a land marked for greatness

Where human rights was the goal

But some very sad day

Along the way

Israel lost its soul

Get it right! In one of the LA Times tributes to Elizabeth Taylor the author writing about “A Place In The Sun,” said that in the film, Montgomery Clift drowned his pregnant mistress, Shelly Winters, so he could marry Taylor. That didn’t happen. Clift took Winters out in a row boat with that intention only to have her panic and fall overboard.

he was wrongly convicted of murder and in a moving scene just prior to his execution, he asks a priest if he was guilty. The priest answered, (wrongly) “If you had murder in your heart son, then you are guilty.” I saw APITS as a teen and was moved and disturbed by that scene.

BOOK REVIEW: The Tiger’s Wife by Tea Obreht - When I read that this book moved between current reality and something between fable and mystic realism, I assumed I would like the reality parts best. It turned out to be just the opposite. The stories, the tiger’s wife and the deathless man were both fascinating and moving while the current reality parts, about a post civil war Balkan country moved rather slowly. However, ignore the latter. The two stories are unforgettable.

Barbara and I were watching a PBS special on the Weavers and I heard a song that I had long forgotten. Here is the chorus, which, I suspect, was written with me in mind:

How do I know my youth is all spent?

My get up and go has got up and went

In spite of it all, I’m able to grin

When I think of all the places my get up has been