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A poem

05.30.2009 by David Murray // 8 Comments

When I started this blog almost exactly a year ago, I told myself that since it belonged strictly to me and not to a publisher, I was going to publish any crazy ass thing I wanted, up to and including a poem now and again. I forgot that I haven't written poems since college, and I'm badly out of practice. Well, here goes nothing.

The Brothers Jagoff
For repeatedly portraying my country
As a nation of humorless saints on the one hand
And Rush Limbaugh on the other,
I am beginning to hate
(I realize I'm late)
Keith Olbermann as much
As his brother.

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  1. Steve C. says

    May 30, 2009 at 2:22 pm

    I don’t really understand your poem, since I don’t know Keith Olberman’s bother . . . but I can way with complete certainty that Keith Oberman is a douche bag.
    And I say that knowing that I haven’t used the word “douche bag” since high school.
    In fact, I don’t even think I used it then.
    In fact, I don’t even know what a douche bag is, but I know that Olberman somehow is one.
    Steve C.

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  2. Steve C. says

    May 30, 2009 at 2:22 pm

    I don’t really understand your poem, since I don’t know Keith Olberman’s bother . . . but I can way with complete certainty that Keith Oberman is a douche bag.
    And I say that knowing that I haven’t used the word “douche bag” since high school.
    In fact, I don’t even think I used it then.
    In fact, I don’t even know what a douche bag is, but I know that Olberman somehow is one.
    Steve C.

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  3. David Murray says

    May 30, 2009 at 2:38 pm

    LIMBAUGH! LIMBAUGH is his brother!
    Sweet Christ, Crescenzo, stick to Hemingway. You never were a poetry guy.

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  4. Kristen says

    May 30, 2009 at 4:16 pm

    Oh for pity’s sake David! Cut the man a break! He obviously posted this while he was drunk – look at that nearly incomprehensible first sentence if you doubt it!!
    To wit:
    “…Keith Olberman’s bother” and “…but I can way with complete certainty…”
    Steve: You should try Cindy’s approach and blame your iPhone! ๐Ÿ˜‰

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  5. David Murray says

    May 30, 2009 at 5:03 pm

    Steve, you may be “bother” to Keith “Olberman,” but you’re a brother to me.

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  6. Joan H. says

    June 1, 2009 at 8:14 am

    Rush Limbaugh has a brother?

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  7. Ron Shewchuk says

    June 1, 2009 at 4:05 pm

    Who’s on first?

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  8. David Murray says

    June 1, 2009 at 4:15 pm

    So much for the poetry experiment.

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