Hands Off Cowboy Poetry!

Leave it to Harry Reid to remind Americans why our artists and scholars can't survive without public support. If you're an academic like me and just assumed that the NEA and NEH funded only works of especial merit by "underrepresented voices," why it's time to revise your paradigm, pardner. Here's an example of the traditional Silent Majority folk lyric they call Cowboy Poetry.

The Grant Searchers

What makes a land to squander,

to squander all she owns?

She pines and pants

for federal grants,

but why, O Lord, o why?

N...E...A...

N...E...A...

U...S...A....A....A

by The Unfunded