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Rex_Goodheart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-06-07 08:16 AM
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The most relevant political poem you'll hear all year
Things that Keep Me Up At Night
by Rex

Global warming
Glaciers deforming
Melting ice at Poles
Ozone layer holes
Coastal erosion
Population explosion
Amazon deforestation
Oxygen deprivation
Disappearing species
Spinach laced with feces
Disappearing bees
Avian-borne disease
Darfurian starvation
Israeli occupation
Sunni insurgents
Soviet reemergence
Iranian extremists
The Chinese out-supreme us
Baghdad roadside bomb
Another Vietnam
North Korean nukes
Second coming kooks
Hugo Chavez
A moron as our Prez
Obscene waits on planes
Monster hurricanes
American Idol tunes
New Orleans still in ruins
Foreign oil addiction
Cheney escapes conviction
Stock market crash
Medicare out of cash
Health cost escalation
Illegal immigration
Crumbling Americana
Dammit, where’s Osama?

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ShortnFiery Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-06-07 08:19 AM
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1. You forgot,
No mangos from India :cry: :P

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Glorfindel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-06-07 08:23 AM
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4. Oh, jeez...now I'll spend all day trying to rhyme something with "India"
that also fits into the spirit of the OP's poem. :spank:
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ShortnFiery Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-06-07 08:30 AM
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5. How bout' ...
But bombs' away in Ethiopia :shrug:

Only simple rhyme that I could do ... is with that of another country.
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Glorfindel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-06-07 08:20 AM
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2. Dang, Rex, that's a masterpiece!
Worthy of Bob Dylan. You need to set it to music and make a video. :hi: :kick:
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ShortnFiery Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-06-07 08:22 AM
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3. yes!
here here! Bravo. :applause:
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Rex_Goodheart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-06-07 10:57 AM
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6. Thank you, thank you very much.
Bows.
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tool_of_the_people Donating Member (330 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-06-07 11:03 AM
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7. Most excellent, Rex.
It needs to be put to music.
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Bake Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-06-07 11:42 AM
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8. It almost fits "We Didn't Start the Fire."
Good job, Rex.

Bake
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Duppers Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-06-07 06:02 PM
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9. KOOL! nt
nt
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