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Flashback
In 2004, ten years ago today,
What did news headlines say?
Here is a stanza, a quatrain
That will try to help and explain:
09/01/2004
To morning papers and network news we’re all tuning in
it’s Republican Convention time as spin doctors spin
speeches from V.P. Cheney & Arnold Schwarzenegger
swelled muscle heads getting bigger and bigger
09/02/2004
Republicans on Madison Square Gardens stage
in the streets activist rage, some locked in a cage
negative vibes from Vice President Cheney
Arnold S. gets applause for being so zany
09/03/2004
About his War on Terror
Bush runs off at the mouth
while a school full of children
is held hostage in the Russian South
09/04/2004
Many Pacific typhoons and Caribbean hurricanes
islands and peninsulas hit by heavy winds and rains
Russian school hostage deaths completely insane
Bush and Kerry continue a neck and neck campaign
09/05/2004
Hurricane Frances shows Florida its wrath
as most of the state falls under its path
heavy rains in southern China cause hundreds of deaths
as flooding and landslides blow deadly breaths
09/06/04
Russia mourns terrorist victims/ we search for bin Laden
world leaders might heed this verse of W.H. Auden
“ I and the public know/ What all schoolchildren learn
Those to whom evil is done/ Do evil in return.”
(Joey “Pepe Batbon” Connoly)
