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Thread #60096   Message #963759
Posted By: GUEST,Q
07-Jun-03 - 04:56 PM
Thread Name: Mudcat Bad Writing Contest (Enter Often)
Subject: RE: Mudcat Bad Writing Contest (Enter Often)
Poem by Donald H. Rumsfeld (affectionally known as Rummy).
This poem by Rummy (really!) will appear in "The Existential Poetry of Donald H. Rumsfeld, due out this month, compiled and edited by Hart Seely.

Lyr. Add: (No, Lyr. Delete): Saddam-i-am!

I do not like Saddam-i-am!
I do not like that man, Saddam!
Would you like him with inspectors?
Would you like him with defectors?
Would you like him with no chemicals,
Which mens no
wartime epidemic-als?
Not with inspectors,
not with defectors!
Not with Islam, not with Iran.
I do not like Saddam-i-am!
I want regime change for that man!

Seely commends Rummy for blending irony with a cowboy sensibility and calls him America's poet lariat.
(Will Rogers is spinning in his grave)

From a column in the Los Angeles Times- Washington Post News Service, by Carole Goldberg.

And a little haiku by him:

Needless To Say

Needless to say,
The president was correct
Whatever it was he said.