Write a short poem using at least four words from the social media monitoring list of the Department of Homeland Security. The list starts on page 20 and includes some fairly innocuous terms. Winning entries will be read by Chion Wolf on Thursday’s show.
You can send entries to me at Colin@wnpr.org
h/t Dudchik
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A poetry contest, I am so happy I could burst!
What will it take to put my poem in first?
Dirty bombs make a toxic cloud.
If I win I’ll be so proud.
Hope and Change has gone from first to worst!
Evacuation Blues
I’m toxic-fusion with my baby
Drunk with alcohol at night
If she talks to Homeland further
It might drive me into flight
I am hazardous material
A plague upon the news
The Bomb Squad won’t get me
Got evacuation blues
We’ve elected a president we cannot attack
Media power elite forever have his back
He’s often found in a golf cart
They keep telling me he’s smart
This shouldn’t leak… but Barry don’t know jack
Hope and Change dancing at a ball
How did he win…I don’t recall
Barry will play the race card he must
Since our economy has gone lame and bust
Chicago thuggery and tricks for all
Mr McEnroe,
Nothing was read on your show. Perhaps the name for a new book is, “Mr McEnroe and Rush Limbaug are big fat liars.”
Or did my siesta slip in just as Miss Wolf spoke?
Bill…Colin’s not fat.
@ Todd: No. No. Don’t try making this your new Susan Campbell post, you trouble maker.
Oh, and Colin, please convey for me to Miss Wolf that I like they way she pronounces her “W”s.
Mr Mc claims that things were announced and is demanding a big fat public apology from me. Even though I recently lost sound on my computer and cannot verify his claim that rhymes were indeed read, I will hereby apologize.
But I did listen to his show today while reading a book. Perhaps it was the book that took my attention away from his show. Or maybe aliens blocked the signal to my house just as he was announcing.
I heard two good poems and wish there had been more. And I agree, Chion’s diction is wonderful.
@Bill,
Susan who?
@everyone:
what I wrote isn’t poetry but lyric. of course, the debate continues over the difference between poetry and lyric. perhaps lyric could be defined as the pop version of poetry.
I kinda like that. And I will continue listening to Colin’s show but mainly to hear Miss Wolf pronounce her “W”s during her intros and infos.
more of “The Evacuation Blues”
I have gone into hiding
my whereabouts unknown
the one I most cared about
has left me so alone
My new theory of why I missed listening to the rhymes on Mr Mc’s show is that Miss Woff’s “W”s lulled me to sleep.
That’s it. Sorry Colin. If you want me to listen to you, then hire a storm trooper to make announcements and I’ll stay awake.
I once had to pull over to the side of the road to nap when Miss Woff did a PSA. I hope Public Radio is paying her well.
“…Miss Woff’s “W”s lulled me to sleep.”
So much better than those who say “dubba-yen-pyar,” yes?
Her double “W”s are super. Even my cat, Nefertiti lies down when she hers Miss Wolf do her “W”s.
I heard your poem, Mr. Katz.
(Now wouldn’t it be interesting if you got together with Ms. Wolf? Katz & Wolf. Sounds like a wild law firm.}
I must point out, however, that I didn’t hear MINE! Of course, all I did was list words from the list… which made me listless, as I was so overwhelmed by the power of the words I thought they made a poem all by themselves.
Pardon the puns… I listened to McEnroe’s show.
Miss Fitzgerald, (These days, I’m calling every woman “Miss” since the French deleted “Mademoiselle” from their word list. I’m a hopeless contrarian.)
How about a law firm of: Katz, Wolf & Baloney? Unfortunately, I would probably fall asleep in our corporate conferences.