Jesse Ventura’s Poem on Larry King

photo credit: US Navy: NSWC

Jesse Ventura (Navy Seal, Wrestler, and Minnesota Governor from 1999-2003) was on Larry King last Monday night giving commentary on the White House Correspondence Dinner, the disputed Minnesota Senate election, and other things. It appeared Ventura wanted to say his quip of poetry very badly, as he mentioned it three times during his interview.

On the night that Jesus Christ supposedly rose from the dead,
The Navy SEALS shot three pirates straight through the head.

(In reference to the Somalian pirates that held Captain Richard Phillips captive)

Youtube link here, starts at 1:50. Larry King Transcript here.

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Epitaph on an Army of Mercenaries – AE Housman

Epitaph on an Army of Mercenaries
by A.E. Housman

These, in the day when heaven was falling,
     The hour when earth’s foundations fled,
Followed their mercenary calling
     And took their wages and are dead.

Their shoulders held the sky suspended;      
     They stood, and earth’s foundations stay;
What God abandoned, these defended,         
     And saved the sum of things for pay.

(1922)

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