This Poem was Submitted By: Mark Andrew Nelson On Date: 2001-04-08 15:00:41 . . . Click Here To Mail this Poem to a Friend!

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The Charge of the Poet Brigade

Before the poets lay a daunting task. How could their editor really ask and put them under severe duress, to go and write about Congress? In order to keep the hounds at bay, their captain stood up, had this to say: '"Ours is not to reason why" ours but to write or cry.' Into the valley of words  wrote the six poets. Congress lay before them, great orators at the rostrum. 'What shall we say, what shall we do? What relly is this ballyhoo?' Into the flood of words, drowned the six poets. Trying to make sense of it, sensing no one tries a bit. 'What can we say about these cackling birds? We'll sum it up with these few simple words.' Reason, Reason everywhere, nor any mind to think.

Copyright © April 2001 Mark Andrew Nelson

Additional Notes:
"Ours is not to reason why" of course belongs to Tennyson.


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