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Monday, March 08, 2004

# Posted 3:52 AM by Patrick Belton  

AND THEY SAY GREAT POLITICAL ORATORY IS DEAD: But they haven't been listening to Congressman Major Owens, of Brooklyn, whose website promises "Issue updates, legislation, rap poems, event schedule." Didn't think rap and the Congressional Record met that often? Well, that's just because you haven't read "Towers of Flowers," his effort after 9/11:
Pyramid for our age, Funeral pyre, Souls on fire;
Monumental Massacre, Mound of mourning, Futures burning, Desperate yearning, Excruciating churning;
For all the hijacked years, Cry rivers, Feel the death chill, Iceberg of frozen Bloody tears;
Defiant orations of Pericles, Must now rise, Out of the ashes,
Jefferson's profound principles, Will outlive the crashes.
Funeral pyre, Souls on fire, Lincoln's steel will, In the fiery furnace;
There's also his less-known work, Message to the Republican Mob, which begins
Before you merely mauled welfare mothers, But now you’re messing with The Great American Middle Class; We’ll kick your rear! Grandfathers are full of fear, New anger after every tear.
Read them a few times; they have a way of sticking with you.
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