Comments on: Quickly: Boiled Hippos, Crichton the Noodge, Obama the Poet, Six-Word Memoirs http://blog.booklistonline.com/2008/11/07/quickly-boiled-hippos-crichton-the-noodge-obama-the-poet-six-word-memoirs/ Behind the Book Reviews--The Official Blog of Booklist Online Sat, 30 Mar 2013 16:38:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: S. Ajayi-Carroll http://blog.booklistonline.com/2008/11/07/quickly-boiled-hippos-crichton-the-noodge-obama-the-poet-six-word-memoirs/comment-page-1/#comment-300995 S. Ajayi-Carroll Mon, 10 Nov 2008 20:12:43 +0000 http://blog.booklistonline.com/2008/11/07/quickly-boiled-hippos-crichton-the-noodge-obama-the-poet-six-word-memoirs/#comment-300995 And, as Galleycat reminds us, Barack Obama is not merely the president-elect, he’s also a poet (”The Poetry of Barack Obama,” New York Times):

Pop switches channels, takes another
Shot of Seagrams, neat, and asks
What to do with me, a green young man
Who fails to consider the
Flim and flam of the world, since
Things have been easy for me;

And, in the Philadelphia Inquirer, Carlin Romano
comment” Things are easier for him now!

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