Found poetry
Some found poetry, by way of Ryan Cleary and the wonky formatting of his latest column in The Independent.
Probably coming soon, complete with beret and bongos, to a bohemian watering hole’s open-mike night near you.
Look, up in the sky…
By Ryan Cleary
ryan.cleary@theindependent.ca
Big Oil has discovered our
Danny’s kryptonite, or maybe
they knew his secret weakness
all along.
Danny may be a
Newfoundlander of steel, but his people
are flesh and blood. We are his
weakness, his Achilles heel.
Not that Big Oil would ever cut back
on production on purpose to make us
suffer, to have their way with us. I
would never think that.
Danny may
have walked away from Hebron negotiations
and turned down the Hibernia
South application, but the oil companies
would never dream of retaliating.
Never in a billion dollars — my apologies,
I meant billion years.
Personally, I can’t see Danny in a camouflage
suit and beret, Cuban cigar
dangling from his mouth, preaching to
the masses from the top step of
Confederation Building.
That style of
leadership/wardrobe went out with Leo
Puddister.
Imagine Danny laying down the law
— ’bout time we had the ball in our
court. Someone is making billions in
profits … and it ain’t us.
We’d have to be
an independent Newfoundland and
Labrador to nationalize anything.
There’s that evil word — separation.
Better not go there … too scary.
What the hell, it’s time we started
thinking outside the box.
Consider this
column an exercise in freeing the mind.
The question remains: why isn’t the
province making more from the oil
resources off its shores?
It’s clear what Hugo Chávez would
do. Our own Hugo boss, Danny
Chávez, has heard the comparisons, but
he doesn’t seem particularly bothered.
Said Danny: “All I know is he is trying
to get a greater return for his
resources to pour it back into social
programs for his people … when they
try to tag you with someone like
Chávez, they’re trying to compare you
to someone in South America who they
consider to be unreasonable.”
“From my perspective, it’s not so
much stubbornness as it is being hardnosed
in our negotiations to get what’s
fair for the people of the province.”
Sounds reasonable.
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