June 02, 2003

POETRY CORNER

The Washington Post, striving hard to fill the credibility gap left by the New York Times, offers us a portrait of the candidate as hunter-poet.

"John Kerry eats dove. Even better, he shoots them. From behind the stalks of a Southern cornfield, he'll watch them flutter and dart, and fire. "You clean them. Let them hang. It takes three or four birds to have a meal," said the Massachusetts senator. "You might eat it at a picnic, cold roasted. I love dove."...

Kerry then contributed a spontaneously written poem on the topic of hunting:
"I had a talk with a deer today/ we met upon the road some way . . . between his frequent snorts/He asked me if I sought his pelt/cause if I did he said he felt/quite out of sorts!"

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