i <br />A fellow from across the sea <br />doesn’t allow messages <br />don’t know him well <br />so don’t know why <br />this need <br />but every man <br />should know what he’s doing <br />and I respect such insight. <br /> <br />ii <br />Someone wrote <br />Jerry Hughes, Loser <br />couldn’t let that stand <br />and usually I never <br />enter public quarrels <br />basically <br />not smart enough <br />for scintillating repartee <br />but <br />couldn’t let that poem <br />stand, as if true. <br /> <br />iii <br />Also gotta stick up <br />for this land <br />land of the free <br />and home <br />of the brave. <br />Ah, <br />so many sighs now <br />laughter not far behind <br />yet <br />many here feel <br />the bloody pain <br />Bush has shoved down <br />our clotted throats.<br /><br />Charles Chaim Wax<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/with-respect-an-explication-for-mr-konisberg/