You guys, there is the most nauseating article in Vanity Fair right now. It’s an article which sings the praises of Al Gore’s book Our Choice, and more specifically, of the POEM HE WROTE IN IT.
I’m sure he’ll be the next Pulitzer winner. There is absolutely no question in my mind that whatever awards are possible for Al Gore to win, he’ll win, because he has so many people snowed. In fact, I’m surprised that he hasn’t yet won a MTV music video award.
Wait. Has he? I could be wrong about that.
Anyway, allow me to share some of the adjectives the article’s author chooses to use about Al Gore and his poem: fresh, beautiful, evocative, disturbing, accomplished, nuanced, arresting, and my favorite – scientifically accurate. Isn’t that hilarious? Here is the poem in its entirety:
One thin September soon
A floating continent disappears
In midnight sun
Vapors rise as
Fever settles on an acid sea
Snow glides from the mountain
Ice fathers floods for a season
A hard rain comes quickly
Then dirt is parched
Kindling is placed in the forest
For the lightning’s celebration
The shepherd cries
The hour of choosing has arrived
Here are your tools
I think Al might think he’s a shepherd. Shepherds are known the world over as inventors of the internet. I wasn’t sure if you knew that or not.
Meantime, the amount of CO2 being emitted at the Copenhagen meeting is equivalent to the daily amount of carbon dioxide produced by 30 of the world’s smaller countries.
NEAT!
http://chicksontheright.com/2009/12/...omment-page-1/glglgl
I’m sure he’ll be the next Pulitzer winner. There is absolutely no question in my mind that whatever awards are possible for Al Gore to win, he’ll win, because he has so many people snowed. In fact, I’m surprised that he hasn’t yet won a MTV music video award.
Wait. Has he? I could be wrong about that.
Anyway, allow me to share some of the adjectives the article’s author chooses to use about Al Gore and his poem: fresh, beautiful, evocative, disturbing, accomplished, nuanced, arresting, and my favorite – scientifically accurate. Isn’t that hilarious? Here is the poem in its entirety:
One thin September soon
A floating continent disappears
In midnight sun
Vapors rise as
Fever settles on an acid sea
Snow glides from the mountain
Ice fathers floods for a season
A hard rain comes quickly
Then dirt is parched
Kindling is placed in the forest
For the lightning’s celebration
The shepherd cries
The hour of choosing has arrived
Here are your tools
I think Al might think he’s a shepherd. Shepherds are known the world over as inventors of the internet. I wasn’t sure if you knew that or not.
Meantime, the amount of CO2 being emitted at the Copenhagen meeting is equivalent to the daily amount of carbon dioxide produced by 30 of the world’s smaller countries.
NEAT!
http://chicksontheright.com/2009/12/...omment-page-1/glglgl
