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How does this make you feel about what Leelee Sobieski has done to poetry, in general?
Do you remember that fateful day when Leelee Sobieski attacked us on live television...?!?
Does anyone remember ?
It was after 9-11 and Jay Leno had been interviewing her on the Tonight Show, when suddenly she committed one of the most offensive attrocities I've ever witnessed on television!
She read this poem;
~This Day And All The Rest~
One day.
One.
More than another.
The other,
that day,
those people,
too many,
too personal,
but not.
People you know know,
but you yourself know not.
Crashing down,
all frown,
hurting,
walking,
silently screaming,
slowly running,
often feeling nothing.
Seeing the lucky ones fleeing,
seeing those trapped inside.
Cry.
Cry.
It's OK.
It's not OK.
Smile if it's natural
Feel alive.
The president speaks,
The situation reeks an act of war.
I enter my room, close the door
Sit here.
Here where buildings do not fall to the floor.
we young will experience much more
future, liberty, the freedom to mope about in poetry.
My brother I love you.
Old friends and family too.
Safe for now glad to know I'm alive with all of you.
Feel what is real feel later heal.
One.
One person feeling the same as all the rest.
Please let us act and do what is best.
Mind you, this was read by her completely straight faced. With only momentary poignant pauses in which she subjected Jay and the audience to her somber stare, as if to punctuate every line.
Yes it's been 8 years, but the trauma I suffered from being subjugated to this trite attempt at a contrived commiseration has left me depressed and at times even suicidal, when I uncontrollably reflect back to that fateful day.
Would I still be able to bring a lawsuit against Leelee Sobieki and the Tonight Show for mental anguish and emotional trauma?
4 Answers
- Anonymous1 decade agoFavourite answer
How does this make me feel!?
One word;
ill.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
Sorry, I quit watching the Tonight Show after Carson left. Leelee hasn't done much lately. It seems to me that she was good at crying. She did it well in Deep Impact. For me, the poem is lukewarm, but I did not know it when it was pertinent.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
Ouch.
I commiserate.
Pedestrian and prosaic.
Perfect proof that pure emotion without a controlling, guiding hand will never make decent poetry.
- robin.banksLv 51 decade ago
ZOMG! that's laughably horrible. holy crap! that really is so, so bad. 7th grade style bad.