Comments on: David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: The Love Poems of David Petraeus http://therumpus.net/2012/11/david-biespiels-poetry-wire-the-love-poems-of-david-petraeus/ Books, Music, Movies, Art, Politics, Sex, Other Sat, 25 May 2013 01:07:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: William Candlewood http://therumpus.net/2012/11/david-biespiels-poetry-wire-the-love-poems-of-david-petraeus/comment-page-1/#comment-363857 William Candlewood Wed, 14 Nov 2012 19:55:56 +0000 http://therumpus.net/?p=107785#comment-363857 This whole post made my day. What a treasure of found poetry. It’s up there with the “Poetry of Donald Rumsfeld.” Truly the worlds of poetry and politics coincide with these lines (as anyone who has worked in government can attest):

And let that not change significantly
Following the cutoff date
Of our love —

Though typically when I issue
A cutoff date
It takes some 6-8 weeks

Prior to the date
Of assessment for it to be
Reviewed by the President.

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