http://blogcritics.org/ A sinister cabal of superior bloggers on music, books, film, popular culture, politics, and technology - updated continuously. en Copyright 2005-2007 by the authors Sat, 5 Jan 2008 07:24:18 EST http://backend.userland.com/rss Blogcritics.org custom software http://blogcritics.org/archives/2006/12/01/174725.php#comment-685310 Ode to Hugo Chavez (Richard, 31 December) Draw your sword, we your blood Our logomachy must reach an end Antipathy rises bitterly to flood When words cut too deep to mend Our pneuma cannot be devoured By bete noir or those misguided Be warned a faith fully flowered Will not be murdered nor divided Your raillery is pepless and old Recalcitrance for nothing's sake Radical inclusion just to be bold Always washes shallow and fake You have mistaken stilled silence For quiescence and perhaps fear Good people are slow to violence But grow pawky with danger near We ask you to reconsider the road That you so self-destine to travel For decades this road was closed Proclaiming ill intent unraveled 685310@blogcritics.org Sat, 5 Jan 2008 07:24:18 EST