A few words about immigration

[shereads]

Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore;
Send these, the homeless tempest-tossed to me.
I lift my lamp beside the golden door.

 

[Stella_Omega]

Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore;
Send these, the homeless tempest-tossed to me
I lift my lamp beside the golden door.

Who takes poetry seriously?

 

[shereads]

Who takes poetry seriously?

I'd prefer a limerick.


The New Colossus v.2:

Mongolian and Puerto Rican,
All followed the bronze lady's beacon,
We came uninvited
And later united,
So did you - unless you're a Mohican.

 

[BlackShanglan]

Shereads made me read poetry. Damnit! How am I supposed to get back into Nascar now?

 

[shereads]

Shereads made me read poetry. Damnit! How am I supposed to get back into Nascar now?

A horse NASCAR fan?

My head hurts.

 

[BlackShanglan]

A horse NASCAR fan?

My head hurts.

Wild horses couldn't drag me from it. Entice, certainly, but not drag. A horse in drag is a very odd sight indeed. Especially at a NASCAR ... event. Whatever they might be called.

Shanglan

 

[The_Fool]

A NASCAR poetry blurt?

 

[3113]

Who takes poetry seriously?

Not very good poetry either. I mean, let's face it.

Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore;
Send these, the homeless tempest-tossed to me.
I lift my lamp beside the golden door.

This is not Shakespeare. "huddled masses"? "Wretched refuse of your teeming shore"!!

I think we can do better. I mean, us authors here. Don't you?

The "golden door" line isn't so bad.

 

[shereads]

Not very good poetry either. I mean, let's face it.

Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore;
Send these, the homeless tempest-tossed to me.
I lift my lamp beside the golden door.

This is not Shakespeare. "huddled masses"? "Wretched refuse of your teeming shore"!!

I think we can do better. I mean, us authors here. Don't you?

The "golden door" line isn't so bad.

My limerick didn't do it for you, huh.

 

[Guest]

My limerick didn't do it for you, huh.

You forgot the part about Nantucket.

 

[TxRad]

Wild horses couldn't drag me from it. Entice, certainly, but not drag. A horse in drag is a very odd sight indeed. Especially at a NASCAR ... event. Whatever they might be called.

Shanglan

The Petty's quit NASCAR one year and went DRAG Racing.... does that count....

Oh and the "Event" is called a race.....

 

[shereads]

You forgot the part about Nantucket.

Nothing rhymes with Ellis Island.

 

[BlackShanglan]

Nothing rhymes with Ellis Island.

That land is your land
This land is my land
Go back to your land
Get off my island ...

 

[TxRad]

That land is your land
This land is my land
Go back to your land
Get off my island ...

The national anthem of the American Indian nations.....

 

[shereads]

That land is your land
This land is my land
Go back to your land
Get off my island ...

BWAAAhahhahah!

You rule.

 

[shereads]

If your maid and your pool boy are shirkers,
Consider acquiring guest workers.
So cheaply they toil,
Polite and unspoiled,
There's a boatload of them arriving in Nantucket.

 

[TxRad]

If your maid and your pool boy are shirkers,
Consider acquiring guest workers.
So cheaply they toil,
Polite and unspoiled,
There's a boatload of them arriving in Nantucket.

Uh.... I thought they arrived by boat in Miami....

Here in Texas, they just wade the river...

Anyway, Nantucket doesn't quite rhyme... although you get and E for effort...

 

[SimpleGifts]

Anyone else catch that "Daily Show" segment about the immigration bill, referring to the section about how illegal immigrants can earn "points" towards becoming legal immigrants if they have a certain level of education, assets, professional skills, etc.? And how that implies that some "brown people" are more useful to the nation than others?

The punchline was that the motto of the U.S. is no longer "give me your huddled masses," but instead the motto is, "What can Brown do for YOU?"

SG

 

[shereads]

Anyone else catch that "Daily Show" segment about the immigration bill, referring to the section about how illegal immigrants can earn "points" towards becoming legal immigrants if they have a certain level of education, assets, professional skills, etc.?

We should apply the same criteria to candidates for president.

 

[SimpleGifts]

We should apply the same criteria to candidates for president.

Right. But then we might get a president who has a lot of financial assets and therefore wouldn't need to bother with educational achievement or skills. And we wouldn't want that, now would we?

SG

 

[shereads]

The New Colossus III

Give me your podiatrists, your investment bankers, your huddled chemists yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming schools of engineering.
Send these, the ambitious foreign folks, to me.
Also, send somebody to lift my lamp. It's heavy.

 

[shereads]

Right. But then we might get a president who has a lot of financial assets and therefore wouldn't need to bother with educational achievement or skills. And we wouldn't want that, now would we?

SG

He'd have to be able to fill out the forms. No signing with an "X."

 

[SimpleGifts]

He'd have to be able to fill out the forms. No signing with an "X."

How 'bout with a "W?" Is that out of bounds?

SG

 

[Huckleman2000]

Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore;
Send these, the homeless tempest-tossed to me.
I lift my lamp beside the golden door.

Communist.

 

[elsol]

Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore;
Send these, the homeless tempest-tossed to me.
I lift my lamp beside the golden door.

That was the American Indian motto... ours is "By Invitation Only".