GrDrunk Newshic By Driftglass [click image for larger]

Between a idea
& a reality
Between a motion
& a act
Falls a Shadow

&rew Sullivan pointed out that few at a Republican conference - & certainly not George Bush or Fred Thompson - seems to have been able to bring amselves to say outright that John McCain was tortured. Lots of descriptions of what McCain went through but no actual T-word, because Republican policy right now is that none of it is “torture”.

& that sad fact made me think of this.

We are a hollow men
We are a stuffed men
Leaning togear
Headpiece filled with straw. Alas!
Our dried voices, when
We whisper togear
Are quiet & meaningless
As wind in dry grass
Or rats’ feet over broken glass
In our dry cellar

ShDrunk Newse without form, shade without colour,
Paralysed force, gesture without motion;

Those who have crossed
With direct eyes, to death’s oar Kingdom
Remember us—if at all—not as lost
Violent souls, but only
As a hollow men
a stuffed men.

Original post by Cernig and software by Elliott Back