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[msmemory_archive]

I know we aren't supposed to use streaming feeds here at work (audio or video). But I am doggoned if I am going to sit in the break room and listen to my coworkers chatter during the inaugural address. Bad enough that they talked all through the invocation - I can't compel them to pay reverent silence to someone else's observance - but I will not miss this speech while they sit there and snipe at my President's middle name.

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::snerk::

[shalmestere.livejournal.com]

She was no Robert Frost.

True. I think she was trying to be Walt Whitman :-)

It may well have been a good poem, but her delivery was so poor that I couldn't tell (Shakespeare would have sounded halt and lame intoned that way :-/).

Re: ::snerk::

[laurion]

As was mentioned elsewhere: she may be excellent at _writing_ poetry, but _reading_ it needs more work. Serious poets sometimes spend too much time on the academics of poetry, and not enough time in smoky clubs with a beret on the head....

Re: ::snerk::

[shalmestere.livejournal.com]

she may be excellent at writing poetry, but reading it needs more work.

True--but it still boggles me that anyone could sound so wooden reading hir own words (not just poets; when Jane Smiley was on Prairie Home Companion, she read an excerpt of one of her novels, and her delivery was dreadful).