Rep Major Owens is a strange dude, very bad poet, and odd political tactician. He thinks Howard Dean should become more like John Brown — yeah the bloody abolitionist John Brown — and he, well, read it yourself. Here’s his poem:
APOLOGIES ARE REAL COOL
To apologize
Is real cool
But don’t play
The Black agenda
For no eager fool.
Don’t rush to play,
Delay thumping your chest,
Push your words
Into the action test:
Jobs right now we need,
Hungry mouths we have to feed,
Lots of ills
But can’t buy pills.
Prison terms often repeat
Homeless shelters
Are never neat.
Tax cuts we can’t eat,
Iraq war dollars wasted
Spell school repair defeat.
Right now!
Take the action test.
Show us the Bush best.
For any apology
We grant a pat
On the Republican back;
From Democrats
The slavery apology
We desperately lack.
To apologize
Is real cool
But don’t play
The Black agenda
For no eager fool.