Hickory Dickory Dock/ We elected a guy named Barack

I'm oh-so-late on this, but I found the video of Elizabeth Alexander talking poetry on the Colbert Report and had to re-post it here. Colbert opened by asking Alexander to explain poetry, specifically the "difference between a metaphor and a lie." LOL!! Alexander kept her cool, though, and answered his redic questions like a pro. The best was Colbert's suggestion for an alternative to the "Praise Song" poem that Alexander wrote and read for Obama's Inaguration...

"Hickory Dickory Dock
We elected a guy named Barack"

Such ignorance. Such hilarity. Loved it!

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Read a bit of the poem below -

Praise Song for the Day
BY Elizabeth Alexander

Each day we go about our business,
walking past each other, catching each other’s
eyes or not, about to speak or speaking.

All about us is noise. All about us is
noise and bramble, thorn and din, each
one of our ancestors on our tongues.

Someone is stitching up a hem, darning
a hole in a uniform, patching a tire,
repairing the things in need of repair.

Someone is trying to make music somewhere,
with a pair of wooden spoons on an oil drum,
with cello, boom box, harmonica, voice.

A woman and her son wait for the bus.
A farmer considers the changing sky.
A teacher says, Take out your pencils. Begin.

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