do not cry for leila or for him, but drink the red wine and grow your love doublely, one for the ruby in the cup, the other for its rouge on your cheek. bombs rape the eyes of the sleeping assyrian gods. as if it were only a sand box, a few worthless grains of sand. i'll cut for you the last swathe of blue from the sky, sever my and if you'll let me, but for 5 minutes more, leave me to sleep without the knowledge of war. a kanun weeps near the funeral of music. having been occupied, notes mourn for the loss of their song. i am for a concert of horses, the origin of gazelle leapt up from the heart of al gubungi. have you made small steps into the desert within us or listened for the gutterals longed deep within our throats, you would have come bearing gifts. i have nothing in red that i would not abide in green. el batanabi wrote the heart of our silken tanab, what need have we for you? no poem has ever enough red but that its blood might river beneath the veins of its people. beneath the desert sun, one man by one man by one man breathes six. thousands of tons wrung sonorous from the

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go -- leila, democrat, good morning. caller: hi. how are you? thank you for c-span. i have been following this iowa caucus thing like you would not believe. my prediction is ron paul will be first, rick san tormented yum second and newt gingrich third. as of january, they're going to move 27% of their pay for taking care of medicare patients and a lot will no longer take medicare patients. this has been going on ever since we've had what you call that extreme white wing tea party leading our house of representatives. so what i'm saying is that americans don't need to ask are we better off. we need to ask -- the questions americans should be asking, are they better off with an extreme right wing tea party congress or would they be better off with a democratic congress? we do not need to change presidents. we need to get president obama some help by getting him a democratic house and a democratic senate. and there's so much i could talk about, but thank you so much. i want to ask our fellow brothers and sisters to vote democrat so that the middle class and the poor peo