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Thursday, October 27, 2005

Some verse the night before possible indictments.

From "Man and the Echo" by Willaim Butler Yeats.  What do I have on my mind when I read this?  Bush. The White House. The players in the Valerie Plame outing. The corrupted GOP party.  But feel free to add your own interpretation.    

All that I have said and done,
Now that I am old and ill,
Turns into a question till
I lie awake night after night
And never get the answers right.
Did that play of mind set out
Certain men the English shot?
Did words of mine put too great strain
On the woman's reeling brain?
Could my spoken words have checked
That whereby a house lay wrecked?


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