<div style="color:black;font: 10pt arial;">Thanks, Milan!
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From: Milan Hamilton via OE <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net><br>
To: 'Order Ecumenical Community' <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net><br>
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Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] Adventures of Joe Biden--Inauguration Day!<br>
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<div class="yiv2278265492MsoNormal">For Sarah, I may have posted this one just after election day but . . .</div>
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<div class="yiv2278265492MsoNormal"><b>Adventures of Joe Biden</b></div>
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<div class="yiv2278265492MsoNormal">Joe Biden decided to run again</div>
<div class="yiv2278265492MsoNormal">Though his flawed first attempt had ended in pain</div>
<div class="yiv2278265492MsoNormal">A second run faltered in twenty O eight</div>
<div class="yiv2278265492MsoNormal">Which most likely helped his political fate</div>
<div class="yiv2278265492MsoNormal">Obama asked Joe to be his Vice President</div>
<div class="yiv2278265492MsoNormal">Joe Biden said “Yes!” To the White House he went</div>
<div class="yiv2278265492MsoNormal">The economy was teetering on the brink of recession</div>
<div class="yiv2278265492MsoNormal">Joe helped Barack stave off a depression</div>
<div class="yiv2278265492MsoNormal">Joe Biden’s campaign was going down</div>
<div class="yiv2278265492MsoNormal">Then in South Carolina he turned it around.</div>
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<div class="yiv2278265492MsoNormal">Joe Biden went on to win nomination</div>
<div class="yiv2278265492MsoNormal">Amidst a pandemic gripping the nation</div>
<div class="yiv2278265492MsoNormal">His opponent was nasty, he trumpeted proudly</div>
<div class="yiv2278265492MsoNormal">He threatened and blustered and shouted loudly</div>
<div class="yiv2278265492MsoNormal">“I’ll beat you Joe Biden—I’ll trample you under”</div>
<div class="yiv2278265492MsoNormal">“I’ll eat you alive—I’ll tear you asunder”</div>
<div class="yiv2278265492MsoNormal">Joe Biden, Joe Biden didn’t worry</div>
<div class="yiv2278265492MsoNormal">Joe Biden didn’t scream or scurry</div>
<div class="yiv2278265492MsoNormal">He just kept going, he wasn’t all hesitant</div>
<div class="yiv2278265492MsoNormal">He just got elected our forty-sixth President.</div>
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<div class="yiv2278265492MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> OE <oe-bounces@lists.wedgeblade.net> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Sarah H. Buss via OE<br clear="none"><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, January 21, 2021 7:58 AM<br clear="none"><b>To:</b> Order Ecumenical Community <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net><br clear="none"><b>Cc:</b> Sarah H. Buss <shbuss@mac.com><br clear="none"><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Oe List ...] Adventures of Joe Biden--Inauguration Day!</div>
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<div class="yiv2278265492MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;">No mention of Kamala? Or is that a separate poem?</div>
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<div class="yiv2278265492MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;">On Jan 21, 2021, at 9:30 AM, Milan Hamilton via OE <<a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net" target="_blank" href="mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net">oe@lists.wedgeblade.net</a>> wrote:</div>
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<div class="yiv2278265492MsoNormal">I wrote a lot of ‘Adventures of Obama’ during the times now past. Ogden Nash, who wrote comic poetry in the 1920s, wrote ‘Adventures of Isabel,’ a 40 line poem in rhyming couplets. I took my poetic license and wrote a series of the Adventures of Obama in 10 line segments at a time. Each stanza tells the of encountering seemingly impossible odds and turning them into victory in unexpected ways. The original Isabel was a little girl who met a ravenous bear, an ugly witch, a one-eyed giant, and a despairing doctor and used her “magic” powers to win out in the end. I am continuing to use my poetic license with a nod to Ogden Nash in the <b><i>Adventures of Joe Biden.</i></b></div>
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<div class="yiv2278265492MsoNormal">Adventures of Joe Biden—Inauguration Day</div>
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<div class="yiv2278265492MsoNormal">Joe Biden showed up for inauguration</div>
<div class="yiv2278265492MsoNormal">Knowing he’d face a divided nation</div>
<div class="yiv2278265492MsoNormal">Mitch and his minions known for obstruction</div>
<div class="yiv2278265492MsoNormal">Smiling as though there’d been no eruption</div>
<div class="yiv2278265492MsoNormal">Of venomous attackers hunting their heads</div>
<div class="yiv2278265492MsoNormal">At the urging of Donald who now they did dread</div>
<div class="yiv2278265492MsoNormal">Joe Biden, Joe Biden didn’t worry</div>
<div class="yiv2278265492MsoNormal">Joe Biden didn’t scream or scurry</div>
<div class="yiv2278265492MsoNormal">He calmly took his oath, made his stand</div>
<div class="yiv2278265492MsoNormal">And brought civility back to our land.</div>
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<div class="yiv2278265492MsoNormal">Milan Hamilton</div>
<div class="yiv2278265492MsoNormal">January 20, 2021</div>
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<div class="yiv2278265492MsoNormal">Milan Hamilton</div>
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