Tuesday, August 28, 2012
Art
Barack Obama's Art Collection
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by Corinna Kirsch
on Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 10:13 AM
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1. Ed Ruscha, I Think I’ll …,1983
President Obama wasn’t always politically-minded. As an undergraduate at Occidental College, he wrote for a student literary journal. From that flash-in-a-pan moment, here is a little-known poem, entitled “Pop”:
Sitting in his seat, a seat broad and broken
In, sprinkled with ashes,
Pop switches channels, takes another
Shot of Seagrams, neat, and asks,
What to do with me, a green young man
Who fails to consider the
Flim and flam of the world, since
Things have been easy for me.
Tags: diebenkorn, ruscha, barack obama, michelle obama, george w. bush, laura bush, glenn ligon, alma thomas, poetry, occidental, george catlin, frank stella