An Ode to Bush
Posted: June 25th, 2006, 12:19 am
Dear Mr. President,
For all the thousands of people
you've killed (for to call it murder
would be impolite),
there must be some
whose existence, whose will
to go on living, is sustained by
their hatred of you.
You are providing a service
to the mental health of humanity,
an education in civics to all
those who thought politics didn't matter.
Is it possible to live off of hate?
Marlene Dietrich said of her mother,
who died very soon after Germany
was liberated, that she
was motivated to stay alive
just long enough to see the Nazis fall.
Now, I must apologize
(but not to you)
for the analogy because
it's rather insensitive to compare you
to Hitler, Mr. Bush.
Hitler's crimes were much worse.
If Hitler was the incarnation of radical evil,
and Eichman represented the banality
of evil, you stand for something like
the smug idiocy of evil. Your crimes
are more like those of Truman, like
a well-meaning guy
with inordinate power at his command,
who happened to be a simpleton
when it came to the Law
of humanity.
For all the thousands of people
you've killed (for to call it murder
would be impolite),
there must be some
whose existence, whose will
to go on living, is sustained by
their hatred of you.
You are providing a service
to the mental health of humanity,
an education in civics to all
those who thought politics didn't matter.
Is it possible to live off of hate?
Marlene Dietrich said of her mother,
who died very soon after Germany
was liberated, that she
was motivated to stay alive
just long enough to see the Nazis fall.
Now, I must apologize
(but not to you)
for the analogy because
it's rather insensitive to compare you
to Hitler, Mr. Bush.
Hitler's crimes were much worse.
If Hitler was the incarnation of radical evil,
and Eichman represented the banality
of evil, you stand for something like
the smug idiocy of evil. Your crimes
are more like those of Truman, like
a well-meaning guy
with inordinate power at his command,
who happened to be a simpleton
when it came to the Law
of humanity.