Sparrow for Prez.
Sparrow ran for the Republican Party nomination for President in 1996 against Bob Dole. Here is a poem he wrote to memorialize it, and below this poem is a YouTube clip in which Sparrow outlines the campaign slogan for this, his third run at the Leadership of the Free World.
Yes, I Am Running for President Again
Yes, I am running for President again,
on this cool AM in March.
I have just awoken, my belly somewhat swollen from
too many All-Natural Cheese Puffs last night, the
air about me ringing with a burnished
bell-like silence—I am somewhat constipated, but
confident. My nation needs me,
several friends have told me
(including Jeff Piazza of Bellport, CT):
she is rudderless and vague,
choked with half-formed fears of
the Chinese, the Japanese, the homosexual,
the Jew. The wolves have been loosed, the peasant have been armed
with pitchforks, night is falling, and the sirens
have begun to wail. I cannot turn back.
I must step out onto this bleak, surreal landscape,
armed only with my standard—the black
flag of Doubt—and my lonely voice, calling:
"Come with me! Come with me!
We will fight the Famine, and the turbulent mob!
We will sing in the darkness, and strum mandolins!
We will hold each other as the mortars boom and echo around us!"