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Elinor Lipman has just published her book of election inspired tweets. Tweet Land of Liberty: Irreverent Rhymes from the Political Circus charts the daily, hilarious tweets she wrote, starting in June, as she followed the shifting political landscape. The twittersphere went crazy for them--and now they're available in the booksphere(?), too.
She even wrote us a special poem to commemorate the publication of Tweet Land of Liberty.
I
made this stupid pledge last June,
It
could've been a lead balloon.
Twitter
poems are hard to fit,
But
there's a lot that rhymes with "Mitt."
Each
day I rose at 6 o'clock,
And
felt the strains of writer's block.
It
takes a village to amuse....
But
then--a gaffe or breaking news!
Who
knew these poems were so respected,
That
they've been published, all collected.
A
book so cute & undersized,
About
elections, satirized.
I
have to say I'm flabbergasted
How
long this Twitter thing has lasted.
I'd
like to thank the candidates,
I
just hope they won't retaliate...
