Inauguration Poem

Elizabeth Alexander poem at the 2009 Inauguration of Barack Obama

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News & Politics

Tags:

• Barack Obama
• poem
• lady
• inauguration

[bobj2012]

Grass grows when it is sunny. People walk when they have shoes on their feet. I buy shit with money sometimes visa. Stairs go up they go down they do not go sideways. The president is a black guy. One time I went to the zoo. I make observations of things I see in my daily life.

[quentinrj2003]

so i take out my 38 and raise it slowly to my head and shoot

[LadyofBammare]

@maheshapatel

So true.

[maheshapatel]

What do expect from a country run by clowns and supported by idiots! F'ing shit.

[Pimpen253557]

wat de fook is dis shyt dis bytch crazy

[JayXL14]

the fck is this bitch sayingg

[violenthues]

even my 56 year old mother thought this poem sucked. that says something.

[squareis2]

I must be missing something because I didn't think it was that bad. There's usuaully alot of pressure on the inagural poet so it's probably not going to be the best but it was not at all as bad as everyone is making it out to be.

[jonny07d]

what the fuck is this bitch babbling about

[seraphlaim]

(cont;d) How inappropriate when we are celebrating the fact that our voices "are" relevant with the electing of a president and being part of that process. How disempowering then to dismiss our contributions as noise, bramble, thorn & din.

I have a funny book called 'Really Bad Poetry' and this poem is bad enough to warrant a new edition to ensure its inclusion.