Reply #11: check this out from the thankyoustephencolbert site: [View All]

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linazelle posted this poem last night. it's brilliant and a perfect ode to the ballsilicious Mr. C.

Bruce Maples Says:

May 1st, 2006 at 9:09 pm
If the powerful sit silent
And the common people cheer
You know all you need to know
About the words just spoken here.

While Cheney plays at Merlin
And Don at Lancelot
Steve Colbert is the Jester
Whose humor masks a shot

To tell King George he’s naked
(the truth at last exposed),
Bereft of moral clothing,
His kingdom all but closed.

“Ha ha — a joke, told by a knave,”
The king and knights exclaim,
“Why should we take him seriously?
Has he our might, our fame?”

And yet, e’en as they doth protest,
And fain to look away,
The bead of sweat, the compressed lips
Do more than they can say

To show how deep the Jester’s words
Have cut into their soul.
They know he speaks the truth — they know,
As faint they hear the toll

Of the funeral bell of history,
And the judgment they deferred,
As, one more time, the Jester
Has the final word.