"You campaign in poetry; you govern in prose." -- Mario Cuomo

I got this in an email last night. Looks interesting. See my previous post for poetry and politics stuff, including a note from Bill Knott (!!) in the comments section!

Dear friends and comrades:

My students and I are conducting a pre-election poetry action in a few days, and I am writing to ask you for a verbal contribution. We want the responses to be as spontaneous as possible; they will be most useful if they arrive within 24 hrs.

Mario Cuomo once said: "You campaign in poetry; you govern in prose."

You are invited to compose variations on Cuomo's text and submit them to ewillis@wesleyan.edu :

You ______________ in poetry; you ______________ in prose.

You campaign in ____________ ; you govern in ______________.

Feel free to vote more than once, distribute this text to others, collect versions of these sentences from people you meet, and send them directly to me by email. The resulting collaborative text will be performed at a central campus location on Monday, Nov. 3.

Thanks in advance to all of you who participate.
Elizabeth Willis ewillis@wesleyan.edu