Tuesday, July 14, 2020

Obama/Osama

A poem contrasting the political styles of Barack Obama and Osama Bin Laden, written when the two were adversaries:

Obama meets Osama,
Brandishing a word
As deadly as the sunlight,
More potent as more heard,
As true as it's absurd.

Osama meets Obama;
Suicide meets life.
As certainty meets hope,
Meaning meets the knife.
Absolutes need night.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Politics
July 13: Darfur/Darfur
July 14: Obama/Osama

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