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Poem for Hugo Chavez

by Open-Publishing - Thursday 21 September 2006
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Hugo Chavez

On his address to the UN, Sept. 20, 2006 ( http://www.counterpunch.com/chavez09202006.html )
 
Michael D. Morrissey
Sept. 21, 2006
 
May be redistributed for non-profit purposes, provided copyright is acknowledged. Original place of publication is www.mdmorrissey.info/chavez.
 
Your words bring solace to a damaged nation
not yours, but mine, a limping giant
wounded in its soul by its very leaders,
the men you call imperialists and devils, assassins, torturers.
We know this too. But we need to hear it from you
because we know you are our friend.
You call us brothers, and we believe you.
You remind us of the well-documented crimes of the CIA
against your country and many others, including our own.
You know Bushco, the devil, was behind 9/11
and all that has followed, and you aren’t afraid to say so.
Chomsky doesn’t go that far, but David Griffin does
and he agrees with you about the devil.
So do we. We the people
sinking into fascism like the Germans yesterday,
having learned nothing at all from history,
struck deaf, dumb and blind not by 9/11
but by televsion and the New York Times
who sold out to the devil years ago.
Now you come, Hugo Chavez, saying what the Times
will not print, but our hearts burn to say
before the UN General Assembly.
How can we thank you but in small ways, like this
in the hope that someday small voices will rise into a chorus
as they have in your country, and in Bolivia
and we one day will have real elections again
and elect pople like you who will tell the truth
and do what we want them to do
instead of what they want, which is to enslave us,
kill us, impoverish and exploit us, and worst of all,
do all of this without us knowing, thinking we are free,
the "greatest country in the world."
Has there ever been a more pitiable state in all of history?
"And they thought they were free!"
will be our epitaph, signed by the Vice-President of Sneers,
unless we rise, hermano, and smile your smile of brotherhood
and justice. Te saludo, Hugo, amigo americano.

Forum posts

  • My sentiments!

    Thank you,

    Rita Monroe in Oregon

  • Very well put!!!
    Thanks for the post.

  • I suppose criticism is always a shortcut to thinking, this being another fine example on the heels of Mr. Chavez’s fatuous speech. If I am to understand this Peom Mr. Morrissey, you actually spent a moment of your life drafting a poem regarding issues you obviously lack the intellect and experience to understand. You and your sister from Oregon are an empirical argument for abortion.

    • QUOTES FROM Poster ***68*** .151. —"I suppose criticism is always a shortcut to thinking,
      [ YOU MAY WELL SUPPOSE SO: AS YOU ARE MAKING A JEJUNE ATTEMPT AT CRITICISM, YET STILL STILL ARE NOT ABLE TO CONNECT IT TO ANY COHERENT THOUGHT.......... ]

      "this being another fine example on the heels of Mr. Chavez’s fatuous speech."
      [LET’S GIVE THIS FOX-BOOSTER CLONE SOME CREDIT: HE HAS *HEARD* OF THE WORD ’FATUOUS’ AT LEAST - ALTHOUGH NOW HE MAY FEEL THAT HE SHOULD HAVE LOOKED IT UP. WOULD I APPLY THE TERM ’FATUOUS’ ...TO HIS ATTEMPT AT INTELLIGENT CONTUMELY? NO - EVEN THAT WOULD GRANT IT TOO MUCH . ABOUT ***68*** .151. ’FOPPISH’ IS THE TERM THAT COMES TO MIND.]

      "If I am to understand this Peom Mr. Morrissey,"
      [A HIGHLY UNLIKELY PREMISE - BUT WE’LL SEE WHAT YOU CAN DO WITH YOUR BEST EFFORT]

      "you actually spent a moment of your life drafting a poem"
      [NO DOUBT MORRISSEY DID SPEND A MOMENT OR TWO ON IT - BUT GIVEN THE LABOURED PHILISTINIC TENDENTIOUSNESS OF YOUR ASSAY INTO THE ART OF RETORT, YOU MUST HAVE SPENT DAYS ARRIVING AT THIS NUGGET OF PUERILITY YOU PRESENT US WITH]

      regarding issues you obviously lack the intellect and experience to understand.
      [DOES THIS FOP EVEN ’UNDERSTAND’ THE MEDIOCRITY OF THE THROW-AWAY CLICHES HE USES IN THE LINE ABOVE? PERHAPS HE JUST FELL OFF THE TURNIP CART AND THINKS THAT HE WILL FIND A WIDE AUDIENCE HERE THAT HAS NOT HEARD THE ALL-APPLICABLE INVECTIVE CAST OF’issues you obviously lack the intellect and experience to understand’...WHAT A FEEBLE EFFORT. :) ]

      "You and your sister from Oregon are an empirical argument for abortion."
      [THE ABOVE, MERELY ANOTHER TRITE TEMPLATE OF INSULT, EMPLOYING THE VULGAR FORMULA OF THE LOCAL BAR & THE LATE-NITE ’COMEDY’ SHOW; i.e."Wow! You are suffering from such an attack of imbecility that it makes the case for euthanasia to put us both out of your pain." YES - WE ALL KNOW THOSE FORULAIC INSULTS FROM PEOPLE LONG PAST THE CAPACITY FOR INDEPENDENT THOUGHT. ...... AND THIS TRIVIALITY INCARNATE, **68*** .151., IS ATTEMPTING TO CRITICIZE - MORRISSEY?!! IT’S ENOUGH TO MAKE THE CHICKENS CACKLE.

      IT WOULD SURPRISE ME IF MORRISSEY CHOOSES - BUT SHOULD HE CHOOSE -EVALUATING WHAT HE HAS WRITTEN AND WHAT, ***68*** .151., THE CONFORMIST ANLE-BITER HAS WRITTEN: MORRISSEY COULD LOGICALLY AND LINGUISTICALLY KICK HIS ASS WITH PHILOLOGICAL EASE.

      Evan MacMurray

  • i agree wholeheartedly

  • Thanks for the comments! That’s what this is all about. But there’s no point in responding to insults. I’ve said my piece on this, but you can go to www.mdmorrissey.info/title if you want more.