{"id":12102,"date":"2019-04-03T18:20:11","date_gmt":"2019-04-03T22:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/?p=12102"},"modified":"2019-04-03T18:27:52","modified_gmt":"2019-04-03T22:27:52","slug":"pop-obamas-disturbing-poem-on-man-boy-relationship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/pop-obamas-disturbing-poem-on-man-boy-relationship\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cPOP\u201d \u2014 Obama\u2019s disturbing poem on man-boy relationship"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"678\" height=\"381\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/barack-obama-at-occidental-678x381.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12103\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/barack-obama-at-occidental-678x381.jpg 678w, https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/barack-obama-at-occidental-678x381-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 678px) 100vw, 678px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>DC CLOTHESLINE<\/strong>, by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dcclothesline.com\/author\/dr-eowyn\/\">Dr. Eowyn<\/a> &#8212; April 3, 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Excerpt:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">This post originally appeared at <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/fellowshipoftheminds.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Fellowship of the Minds<\/a>. Pulled from the archives: May 2013. Please note that FOTM has been forced to move twice, so broken links should be expected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>When Barack Obama was a 19-year-old student at Occidental College, he  published two poems in the Spring 1982 issue of Occidental\u2019s literary  magazine,&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/media.www.oxyweekly.com\/media\/storage\/paper1200\/news\/2007\/03\/21\/Features\/Ode-To.Obama-2792052.shtml\"><em>Feast<\/em><\/a><em>. One is the cringe-worthy \u201c<\/em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.loc.gov\/rr\/program\/bib\/prespoetry\/bo.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Underground<\/em><\/a><em>\u201d about \u201capes that eat figs.\u201d The other poem,&nbsp;<\/em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.loc.gov\/rr\/program\/bib\/prespoetry\/bo.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>\u201cPop,\u201d<\/em><\/a><em>&nbsp;is much more interesting, biographical, and disturbing. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><strong>&#8220;Pop&#8221;<\/strong><\/p><p>Sitting in his seat, a seat broad and broken<br> In, sprinkled with ashes,<br> Pop switches channels, takes another<br> Shot of Seagrams, neat, and asks<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><strong>What to do with me, a green young man<\/strong><\/p><cite>&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>View the complete article including images and links at:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dcclothesline.com\/2019\/04\/03\/pop-obamas-disturbing-poem-on-man-boy-relationship\/\">https:\/\/www.dcclothesline.com\/2019\/04\/03\/pop-obamas-disturbing-poem-on-man-boy-relationship\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DC CLOTHESLINE, by Dr. Eowyn &#8212; April 3, 2019 Excerpt: This post originally appeared at Fellowship of the Minds. Pulled from the archives: May 2013. Please note that FOTM has been forced to move twice, so broken links should be &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/pop-obamas-disturbing-poem-on-man-boy-relationship\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12102"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12105,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12102\/revisions\/12105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}