My fellow Americans, I'm pleased to tell you today that I've signed legislation that will outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in five minutes.
Could have been a Jack Spicer line. Or one of William Carlos Williams' in his feistier years, or Michael Davidson's any time in the past 30 years or so. It's the slippage from reality to object of pure discourse in outlawing Russia. Far be it from me to say that Ronald Regan was a poet, or anything like it, but poetry may burst out when words fail, especially with humor to give it a pass into being spoken.
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