The Impeachment of George Bush —a World Wide Party
Submitted by davidswanson on Mon, 2006-06-19 17:59. Impeachment
By legendary poet Edward Sanders
Today they impeached George Bush
and the world began to party
Flowers bloomed spontaneously
Trombones came out of attics by themselves
and began to play the “Celebration Waltz”
Out in Des Moines the birds in the pet shops
suddenly knew “All you need is love”
and every single puppy could hold a D minor yowl!
In Italy they turned on all the ancient fountains
and the ghosts of Roman poets wrote encomia!
Through the Arc de Triomphe
400,000 lily-carrying children sang
the two words of impeachment
“Égalité..... Liberté”
It was ’45 all over again
In Bohemia the state glass works
produced a million blue plates of Absolute Joy!
to be given out free to the tourists of Prague!
654,000 tapdancers were seen in Santiago
surging past the house of Pablo Neruda
while the stolen books of ’73 were repaired
Petrarch and Laura appeared holding hands
and watching the boat races along the Arno
beneath the bridge of sighs
Out of the mound of Troy
came the mother of Patroclus
with a basket of pomegranates
to heal the soul-wounds of Bush’s many killings
On the cliffs of Leucadia
ancient Sappho sang
“There’ll be freedom to live as we love now
that he is gone”
The voice of Thomas Jefferson
came across Virginia to ask that all citizens’ debts
to banks be forgiven
Anita Ekberg swam naked and alone in the Trevi Fountain
she was so excited at George’s barring
and Catullus wrote three poems at the marvel
500,000 legless humans from U.S. and Chinese land mines
clicked their crutches to the beat as
Stevie Wonder’s “Superstition” played from giant helicopters
to lift the millions of unexploded land mines
out of the blood fields
& into U.N. casks
Paul Bowles sent a waterpipe from Tangier
to Corso, Ginsberg and Orlovksy
in room 27 of the Beat Hotel on rue Git le Coeur
to celebrate the good news
Cassandra stands on Pennsylvania Avenue
and weeps this time with surprise
because the world at last is listening to her words,
“Goodbye George, your house has fallen without ashes!”
Party yay! party say!
Time to dance all day!
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http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/12003
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