From: marcus.e@gmail.com
Subject: From, "In Sarkoland"
Date: June 7, 2007 3:29:48 PM PDT
To: flint@veneermagazine.com, claire.evans@gmail.com
I'd like to submit a poem for the blog (or the print artifact, which
looks wonderful). It's an excerpt from a New York Review of Books
article about the newly elected president of France.
Ahem:
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From, "In Sarkoland"
"Nicolas grew up as a fatherless foreigner
whose two brothers were
taller and better in school
than he was.
He later said,
'I was fashioned by the humiliations of childhood.'
He today remains
very close to his mother.
There was a 'normal' family
he visited during the
summers,
with an established social position,
a father and mother
living together, and children
including a son his age. The son later said,
'At fourteen I saw Nicolas's motivation develop. He spoke to me always
of revenge, and I couldn't understand why.'
Nicolas decided very early to become president of the French Republic."
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Thank you.
Marcus