Obama's Inaugural Poet Found?

Obama's Inaugural Poet Found?
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The speculation is that Barack Obama has found his inaugural poet. Not necessarily Robert Frost or even Robert Pinsky, the nearly anonymous bard recently penned the following piece...

POP...GOES THE WHITE HOUSE (Inspired by "Pop" scribed by 19 year old B. Obama)
Sitting in his new seat, a seat broad and broken by W's folly

In, sprinkled with ashes, of those whose lives were lost by invasions unjust,

O switches channels on eight years of wrongs, takes another

Shot of change, neat, and asks

What to do with me, a green, yet with a healthy dose of African-American, young man

Who fails to consider the

Flim and flam of neocons of the world, since

Things have been easy for me, except for the very end of the primary...

Man, Hillary locks on to possibility like a Limbaugh locks on to talking point.

He stares hard at his face, a dry drunk who cares less of humanity READ THE REST OF THE POEM AND DISCOVER THE POET'S IDENTITY HERE
Award-winning TV writer, Steve Young is author of "Great Failures of the Extremely Successful" (greatfailure.com) and blogs at the appropriately
names, steveyoungonpolitics.com.

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