roachboy

public opinion in france is overwhelmingly against the policies of george w bush
so what?

the us is an elephant in your living room.
despite the disparaging estimates you might make about the size of the elephants brain
the volume and frequency of your complaints about its decisions
because of your concern about the level of damage it could do,
if nothing else,
you still have get along with it.
because there is almost nothing more requiring of management than a huge and stupid beast in your living room
particularly when you suspect strongly that this particular elephant in your living room has tried to justify its actions internally by casting you as some kind of irrelevant force
an obstacle to the full deploying in space of the idiocy within
and so is inclined,
you think,
to view your living room with hostility



heh heh................nice fellow..........no no no dont do that.......um........peanut?


to defenders of elephants:
this tedious allegory requires a suspension of disbelief.
on the other hand, it does stage a relation:
this georgewbush elephant in your livingroom is to all elephants as this administration is to all americans.

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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear

it make you sick.

-kamau brathwaite