Wallace Stevens/John Ashcroft

[Jim Strong]

--- Jon Ford <jonmfordster@hotmail.com> wrote:
> I like to think that Stevens wouldn't have cared
> much for our present  
> moralistic leaders in the Bush camp--
-- quoting the Stevens poem --
[A High Toned Old Christian Woman]
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REPLY:
Dunno Fordster, I'm thinking maybe Desolation Row says
it even better? I mean the first stanza seems to be
what's happening now, after all ...
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"They're selling postcards of the hanging
They're painting the passports brown
The beauty parlor is filled with sailors
The circus is in town
Here comes the blind commissioner
They've got him in a trance
One hand is tied to the tight-rope walker
The other is in his pants
And the riot squad they're restless
They need somewhere to go
As Lady and I look out tonight
>From Desolation Row"
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The rest of DR follows at:
http://bobdylan.com/songs/desolation.html
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Billy Jim
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