Bathroom Break
By Callimachus | Related entries in In The News, Kitchen SinkThis purported note-scribbling by Bush, currently the hottest picture on the Internet, reminded me of this poem from “Spoon River Anthology”:
HOW many times, during the twenty years
I was your leader, friends of Spoon River,
Did you neglect the convention and caucus,
And leave the burden on my hands
Of guarding and saving the people’s cause?�
Sometimes because you were ill;
Or your grandmother was ill;
Or you drank too much and fell asleep;
Or else you said: “He is our leader,
All will be well; he fights for us;
We have nothing to do but follow.�
But oh, how you cursed me when I fell,
And cursed me, saying I had betrayed you,
In leaving the caucus room for a moment,
When the people’s enemies, there assembled,
Waited and watched for a chance to destroy
The Sacred Rights of the People.
You common rabble! I left the caucus
To go to the urinal!
I doubt people read Masters anymore. I think he was old-fashioned by the time I got to him in the ’70s, but his characters stick with you.
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September 15th, 2005 at 12:54 pm
Bush isn’t really asking for a bathroom break – it’s actually code for…
“Have the CIA operatives follow the Iranian President into the bathroom and beat the truth out of him about his involvement with the U.S. hostages back in ‘79!”