Please tell me why I should vote for your candidate. I will consider only replies that are written as a haiku, a limerick, or a couple lines of dactylic hexameter (OK to use spondees liberally). As some haikus are popping up on another thread, let’s try some other forms.
Please share widely!
He sees through bad legislation
’cause he cares what goes on in our nation,
We need someone like Cap
Who we know has our back
who’s traveled not just for vacation!
when turnout is low,
the polls are where smart voters go
Make your vote count – vote Mike
at least that’s who I like
He’s the one with a record I know
Check out my two recent Capuano posts. Click on my username.
Shall I compare them to Martha Coakley…
who is more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the dull election day
and Somerville hath all to short a vote;
sometime too hot the eye of Capuano shines,
and oft’ is his gold complexion dimm’d;
and every vote from voting Khazei declines
By chance or Pag’s changing course untrimm’d:
but thy eternal Senator shall not fade
Nor lose possession of that vote thou owest;
Nor shall Brown brag thou wanderest in his shade,
when in election lines to vote thou goest:
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p>So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this give vote to Coakley.
What is the above based on? It sounds like Shakespeare.
Shakespeare it is
My own exposure to Shakespeare is almost entirely as a playwright and I sometimes forget he wrote poetry too.
That one is the single most famous in English literature…
The sonnets are wonderful and reward reading.
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p>They aren’t expensive either.
I proposed to my wife with 105
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p>Let not my love be called idolatry,
Nor my beloved as an idol show,
Since all alike my songs and praises be
To one, of one, still such, and ever so.
Kind is my love to-day, to-morrow kind,
Still constant in a wondrous excellence;
Therefore my verse to constancy confined,
One thing expressing, leaves out difference.
Fair, kind, and true, is all my argument,
Fair, kind, and true, varying to other words;
And in this change is my invention spent,
Three themes in one, which wondrous scope affords.
Fair, kind, and true, have often lived alone,
Which three till now, never kept seat in one.
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p>and 116:
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p>Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O no! it is an ever-fixed mark
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose Worth’s unknown, although his height be taken.
Love’s not Time’s fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle’s compass come;
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom:
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved.
Then its time to vote for Cap
So get off your butt
And vote from your gut
(As long as your gut says Cap)
liberal record. In the primary everyone wants to out-progressive the other. MIke actually puts this into practice. The Globe doesnt seem to like him very much, which raises him up a notch in my esteem.
Low turnout today
Coakley got a lot of votes
Capuano weeps
Capuano won
My vote but not many more.
Coakley for Senate