20 October 1999 - Europe: dream kingdom

Jay Scott : Daily Whale : archive : 1999 : 20 October 1999

European Journalism

The right dares not to have a dream.
The left’s dream kingdom
Dares not disappear.
Leftly, the right is
Sundered in broken calumny.
Rightly, the left-thinking
Are vices with
Their minds blinking.
More thought and more salami
Than the Midnight Star.

clue:

See T.S. Eliot’s “The Hollow Men”, especially the beginning, the end, and the middle. I’m parodying the start of the second section. Fans of Weird Al Yankovic will recognize the weekly Midnight Star.

give me a clue so sweet and true