This following poem is composed entirely of actual quotes from George W. Bush.

Make the Pie Higher

I think we all agree, the past is over.
This is still a dangerous world.
It's a world of madmen
And uncertainty
And potential mental losses.

Rarely is the question asked
Is our children learning?
Will the highways of the internet
Become more few?
How many hands have I shaked?

They misunderestimate me.
I am a pitbull on the pantleg of opportunity.
I know that the human being and the fish
Can coexist.

Families is where our nation finds hope
Where our wings take dream.
Put food on your family!
Knock down the tollbooth!
Vulcanize society!
Make the pie higher!
Make the pie higher!

Snopes says the Make the Pie Higher!" poem is composed of actual quotes from George W. Bush.

Snopes goes on to say: We certainly didn't need to write a piece to inform the world that, like his father, President George W. Bush is not a strong public speaker. Particularly when speaking extemporaneously, he often uses words similar in sound but different in meaning to what he intends to say (e.g., "vulcanize" for "Balkanize") or uses incorrect forms of words (e.g., "resignate" for "resonate"), garbles familiar phrases by transposing words (e.g., "where wings take dream"), and makes a variety of grammatical mistakes (e.g., "how many hands have I shaked"). The point here was not to rehash the numerous lists of "Bushisms" to be found in a variety of media, but to perform a sort of investigative experiment into the accuracy of information transmission in the Internet age.




However, I believe POACers would be better at creating poetry from Bushisms than the Snopes person was.

Break out, all of you POAC Poets, and create a poem to rival this one, using only Bushisms.

Catherine

damn..... i am gunna hafto try this...

We look forward to hearing your vision,
So we can more better do our job.
That's what I'm telling you.

If it were to rain a lot,
There is concern from the Army Corps of Engineers
That the levees might break.
And so, therefore, we're cautious about encouraging people
To return at this moment of history.

So please give cash money to organizations
That are directly involved in helping save lives — save the life
Who had been affected by
Hurricane Katrina.

My thoughts are, we're going to get somebody
Who knows what they're talking about
When it comes to rebuilding cities.

The relations with, uhh — Europe are important relations,
And they've, uhh — because, we do share values.
And, they're universal values, they're not American values
Or, you know — European values, they're universal values.
And those values — uhh — being universal,
Ought to be applied everywhere.

And Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job.



Catherine

On a similar theme:

http://www.thesmokehammer.com/

Ashley

"The truth is out there" - it just needs a little cutting and pasting!