Blackwell meets Rove: one scenario.

[bleever]

The Walrus and the Architect (with apologies to Lewis Carroll)


The Walrus and the Architect
Were talking over tea,
Of Buckeyes of a voting age,
How numerous they be,
And how the Walrus ought to bear
This great responsibility.

The Architect, his eyes grew moist,
He said, “My dearest friend.
Though there be ballots by the millions,
Still we can depend
That you will safeguard each last one
Until the very end.”

“Alas,” the Architect went on,
“We know some might be lost.
And what a pity it would be
Were we to bear the cost.”
The Walrus stroked his papers
Where his title was embossed.

“I must concur,” the Walrus said,
“No sadder circumstance
Than ballots lost, a somber thing
We cannot leave to simple chance.”
With tears and great affection
They did heartily shake hands.

“The time has come,” the Walrus said,
“For many a serious thought
Of how to place this year’s machines;
Alas, we underbought.
Thank goodness for the lessons that
The last election taught.”

“Dear Sir,” the Architect replied,
“Your tender care for such details
Should not be spared from any part
Of this most sacred of travails.
I trust the final counting, too,
Will not be left to ‘heads’ or ‘tails’.”

“I’ll bore you not with TRIADS,
Or with hired thugs or GEMS,
Provisionals, or absentees,
Or other strategems;
But not one small discrepancy
Will benefit the Dems.”

“Splendid!” cried the architect,
“Let’s celebrate our noble pact.”
And bread and wine and cheese
Upon the table soon were neatly stacked.
The walrus’s new mansion, in his mind
Appeared as real as fact.

Folding up his napkin,
The architect he sighed,
The work of the dear Walrus
He now surveyed with pride.
And Walrus tasted oh so well
With wine and cheese upon the side.

[idiosyncratic]

1. Thanks for that.

:)

[Patsy Stone]

2. You just crack me up!

I think Lewis Carroll, Jonathan Swift and several "Theatre of the Absurd" playwrights would have a field day with all of this crap. Where is Vonnegut? This actually is approaching his realm of near Sci-Fi.

Also, loved the post on the other thread about OBL and 1-800-FLOWERS.

Keep up the good work, you. You are a definite bright spot in the murky darkness -- and a born poet. Cheers, sweetie.

[bleever]

3. Clinky!

I had to work "plotz" into that other post just for you.

:toast:

[Patsy Stone]

4. Well appreciated!

Next time we'll try mishegas cause that's what all of this is: craziness!

Also, I posted to the wrong place, but I wrote you anofer Keef! poem. Here: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=203&topic_id=166483&mesg_id=198361&page=

Not as good as yours, to be sure, but I love that thread and I hope it never goes away. Clinky!

Oh, btw, speaking of clinky, K/E filed: Grey Goose all around!

:toast:

[bleever]

5. Good one, Pats!

And funny how that thread is the gift that keeps on giving.

I must admit that when I made my final stop on the Christmas Tour-de-shop to get myself some Grey Goose, I decided that I'd settle for Skyy and save the Grey Goose for K's inauguration.

:)

GGoose, Skyy, it all blurs together fairly quickly.

[seito]

6. Good one Bleever

A fine poet you are

:toast:

[bleever]

7. I swear to God, you gotta get some people to laugh so they remember

to BREATHE!

K/E don't file motions for discovery and expedition because we're all doomed, for Cheezwiz sakes.

:7

[seito]

8. But we ARE doomed

Make that DOOMED, oh and add some of these!!!!

[bleever]

9. Or, How Doomed We Are! Most foul and doomity DOOM!

Woe=Me.

:)

[txindy]

10. Ah, what imagery

Karl dining on Katherine Blackwell along with some wine and cheese. And whine and cheesiness.

" Reeling and Writhing, of course, to begin with, and then the different branches of Arithmetic - Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision." (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland)

[bleever]

11. Thank you for that: most appropos not only of Arithmetic but also

Poly ticks.

And speaking of tasty dishes, how about the lobster:

"When the sands are all dry, he is gay as a lark,
And will talk in contemptuous tones of the Shark:

But when the tide rises and sharks are around,
His voice has a timid and tremulous sound."

(But perhaps with the help of the Court's gentle hand,
Our lobster can bury himself in the sand.)

;)

[txindy]

12. The lobster truly is fowl

A chickenhawk, by name.

"I'm very brave generally," he went on in a low voice; "only today I happen to have a headache."

No doubt.

It's a pity he has never heeded Lewis Carroll, but that would've necessitated reading words beyond those found on bottle labels.

"Be what you would seem to be - or, if you'd like it put more simply - never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise."

[bleever]

13. Sometimes Junior sounds like one of Carroll's characters.

For example: "When I say the UN will have a 'vital role' in Iraq, I mean exactly that, a role that is vital." And everyone nods, finding no hook upon which to hang the slightest disagreement.

And rereading Humpty Dumpty's chapter, I see Blackwell and all the other minions the BFEE would be happy to see take the fall:

"Why, if I ever DID fall off--which there's no chance of--but IF I did--" Here he pursed up his lips, and looked so solemn and grand that Alice could hardly help laughing. "If I DID fall, the King has promised me...WITH HIS VERY OWN MOUTH--to--to--"

"To send all his horses and all his men," Alice interrupted, rather unwisely.

;)




"Sire, what shall we do?" "Quickly, fools: egg salad."

[txindy]

14. This is Wonderland, it would seem

Unfortunately for many people, Junior does behave as if he rules Wonderland. Their rules certainly apply.

"He's in prison now, being punished: and the trial doesn't begin until next Wednesday: and of course the crime comes last of all." "Suppose he never commits the crime?" said Alice. "That would be all the better, wouldn't it?" the Queen said."



Although I'm sure he'll be very supportive of Humpty, the Walrus, and his other minions when deposition time comes.

"Give your evidence," said the King; "and don't be nervous, or I'll have you executed on the spot."