cleo creech

How fitting that Mark Sanford’s career would now be so tied to a country that gave us one of most famous political divas of all time – Eva Peron.

Below is a found poem, combining the lyrics from “Don’t Cry for Me Argentina” and the Governor’s now famous steamy emails to his latin lover.

The poem starts and finishes with the song, and the lines alternate beween the song and the emails (in italics).

Don’t Cry for me South Carolina

It won’t be easy, you’ll think it strange
my heart cries out for you, your voice.
I had to let it happen, I had to change,
your lips, the touch of your finger tips.
I still need your love after all that I’ve done
your body, the touch of your lips.
They are not the solutions they promised to be;
impossible situation of love.
And as for fortune, and as for fame,
in the faded glow of the night’s light,
they are illusions,
so fitting with your beauty,
my mad existence,
the tranquility that comes with being.
Have I said too much?