DC CLOTHESLINE, by Dr. Eowyn — April 3, 2019
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This post originally appeared at Fellowship of the Minds. Pulled from the archives: May 2013. Please note that FOTM has been forced to move twice, so broken links should be expected.
When Barack Obama was a 19-year-old student at Occidental College, he published two poems in the Spring 1982 issue of Occidental’s literary magazine, Feast. One is the cringe-worthy “Underground” about “apes that eat figs.” The other poem, “Pop,” is much more interesting, biographical, and disturbing.
“Pop”
Sitting in his seat, a seat broad and broken
In, sprinkled with ashes,
Pop switches channels, takes another
Shot of Seagrams, neat, and asks
What to do with me, a green young man
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