Lefty loosey,
Righty tighty.
A Very Short Poem About Politics
June 13, 2015 by at 10:43 am
Lefty loosey,
Righty tighty.
Lefty loosey,
Righty tighty.
A nod to Kierkegaard and Walker Percy: existentialist tomfoolery, political satire, literary homage, word mongering, a year-round summer reading club, Dylanesque music bits, apocalyptic marianism, poetry, fiction, meta-porn, a prisoner work-release program.
Søren Kierkegaard
Walker Percy
Bob Dylan
Literature & History
Letters from an American
Beau of the Fifth Column
This American Life
The Writer’s Almanac
San Diego Reader
The Stranger
The Inlander
Adoremus
Charlotte was Both
The Onion
From Empty Hands
Ellen Finnigan
America
Commonweal
First Things
National Review
The New Republic
All Manner of Thing
Gerasene Writers Conference
Scrutinies
DarwinCatholic
Catholic and Enjoying It
Bad Catholic
Universalis
Is My Phylactery Showing?
Quotidian Quintilian
En pocas palabras
William Wilson, Guitarist Extraordinaire
Signposts in a Strange Land
Ben Hatke
Daniel Mitsui
Dappled Things
The Fine Delight
Gene Luen Yang
Wiseblood Books
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Howzabout …
Righty, tighty,
Lefty, flighty.
Lefty, loony,
Righty, goony.
Lefty, hefty, (think Bob Beckel),
Righty, mighty (Ahhnold).
Lefty, crafty,
Righty, dafty.
(Think of former governors of Arkansas (not so much the wife of one of them))
Lefty, grafty,
Righty, grafty also (It’s just part of a politician’s nature).
Lefty, not so sexy,
Eighty, actually pretty sexy
(Think HRC and Elizabeth Warren compared Michelle Bachmann and Sarah Palin)
Righty, holier-than-thou,
Lefty, smarter-than-thou.
Righty tighty,
Tighty whitey.
Lefty Lucy,
Lucy goosey.
Righty shitty,
Lefty witty,
Righty witty,
Lefty shitty.
Righty mighty,
Lefty hefty.
Righty slighty,
Lefty berefty.
Righty haughty,
Lefty naughty.
Righty lefty,
Lefty righty.
Righty neaty,
Lefty nifty.
Righty sheety,
Lefty shifty.
Righty frighty,
Lefty bitey.
Righty simply,
Lefty limply.
Righty righteously,
Lefty obnoxiously.
Righty righty,
Lefty lefty.
Righty richy,
Lefty bitchy.
Righty nighty,
Lefty lighty.
Righty piety,
Lefty levity.
Righty wrongy,
Lefty righty.
Righty truly,
Lefty fooly.
Righty pooey,
Lefty screwy.
Righty hissy,
Lefty prissy.
Righty poopy,
Lefty loopy.
Righty progeny,
Lefty androgyny.
Righty fighty,
Lefty defty.
Righty ritey,
Lefty litey.
Righty rashy,
Lefty lashy.
so much depends
upon
a lefty’s red wheel
barrow
glazed with rain
water
beside the righty’s white
chickens.
(A free verse alternative).
Nice one!
The warp and weft
Of right and left
Will wend and weave
And make a sleeve
Up which they’ll shove
The things they love
So that their hands
Are barren lands
That they display
For pay-to-play.
Profound and lovely.
ordine, controdine, e disordine
CANTO 41 Gentlemen, again and again,
Ole Ezra Pound starts with Thomas Jefferson, and he ends it with Mussolini. (This is, like so much in Pound, far from an accident: it was at this time that Pound produced a book titled Jefferson and/or Mussolini.)
It all begins with with the famously recounted conversation between Pound and Mussolini. Pound said that he had “never met anyone who seemed to GET my ideas so quickly as the boss.” “The Boss” says, “Ma questo, è divertente.” This, most scholars agree, reflects one of those character flaws in Pound which he did not realize about himself: Mussolini likely would have said the same of just about any book handed to him by the author, and it is a throwaway compliment that would be used especially if one had nothing much to say about a text. Yet Pound held it up as evidence of the culturedness and wisdom of Mussolini, for he needed the man to be a kind of latter-day hero, someone able to hold his ground and shine with his own light when placed in the shadow of Malatesta.