Poetry in the NYT Op Ed Page

I learned tonight that poetry was all over the OpEd page.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/05/opinion/05intro.html?th&emc=th

Some contributors submitted formal poems. [pukalicious poop gagging and choking to death on a page]

There was also a contribution from John Ashberry, which was decent.

The old mule delivers the goods.
Nugatory diddlings are on the decline.
Stateliness has its day.

There are indeed many encouraging signs
in the weather and in handshakes.
Still there are those who mistake dark clouds
for raffish hucksterism. They have never savored
the elation of an empty crystal ball.

To them I say, seconds will call upon you
in the morning. Tonight there are dreams to be thumbed through
before the complicated, awful business
of summoning beautiful particles after the horse is stolen.

It was an interesting experiment for the Times, though it seemed like the contributors sort of slapped stuff together. I wasn't that impressed over all.

But, most importantly, WHERE THE HELL ARE THE BLACK POETS? How can you run a page of poetry after the election of Barack Obama and not feature one African American poet out of the five poets on the page. TOTAL AND UTTER CRAP.

Ugh. I give up.