Nobody's ever confused the guy who gave us "Wang Dang Sweet Poontang" with Bob Dylan or Phil Ochs, much less Allen Ginsberg or Jack Kerouac -- but when Ted Nugent senses injustice, he can write angry protest poetry with the best of them. People have been criticizing him for calling the president a "subhuman mongrel," and you'd think a guy as tough as Nugent thinks he is would just let that criticism roll off his back -- but it hurts, man! It's causing Nugent existential pain!
So he's taken to the modern-day equivalent of an Eisenhower-era coffeehouse -- Twitter -- and posted his own beat poem of outrage, consisting of every Fox News talking point of the last five years, each one linked to a phrase that, when repeated, is incantatory in its power and early-Dylanesque in its rage. Cats and kitties, dig it:
Here's how you have to imagine this being read:
Nugent's poem ... it's almost Joycean. Some would argue that his repeated failure to put a space in the conjoined word "offensivethan" is a lazy rageoholic's failure to cut and paste properly. But say it out loud -- of-fen-SI-ve-than. It's wordplay worthy of Finnegans Wake, an evocation of the Leviathan, a word it almost vaguely sounds like. And "Obamaswatch" in the last line? That's clearly a reference to the Swatch watches of the now departed Golden Age of Reagan.
Yeah, this is deep. I hope you squares can handle it.
