----- Original Message ----- From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> Date: Friday, March 16, 2001 3:34 am Subject: Paul Keating
> Daniel Davies wrote:
>
> >The master of political
> >invective, IMO, was Paul Keating, lovingly archived at
> >
> >http://www.webcity.com.au/keating/
>
>
> [...]
>
> >the man was a genius.
>
> And he, in his tough sadomonetarism, inspired the catchy poem by
> John
> Forbes that Meaghan Morris uses as the epigraph to "Ecstasy and
> Economics":
>
> Watching the Treasurer
>
> I want to believe the beautiful lies
> the past spreads out like a feast.
>
> Television is full of them & inside
> their beauty you can act: Paul Keating's
>
> bottom lip trembles then recovers
> like the exchange rate under pressure
>
> buoyed up as the words come out -
> elegant apostle of necessity, meaning
>
> what rich Americans want, his world is
> like a poem, completing that utopia
>
> no philosopher could argue with, where
> what seems, is & what your words describe
>
> you know exists, under a few millimetres
> of invisible cosmetic, bathed
>
> in a milky white flourescent glow.
>