Rosie O’Donnell on Poem Overdrive

May 30th, 2007 // 6 Comments

Rosie O’Donnell recently emailed CBS’ “The ShowBuzz” in poem form, explaining how she has picked up crafting as a way to express the frustrations she feels as a result of her on-air spat on “The View” with Elisabeth Hasselbeck.

sometimes
when the words become too incendiary
as they come from me

i look to images
what i feel
part here
there
this that
sewn together
taped
stapled

something out of nothing

scraps
what is already done
becomes somehow new
and old
at once

a memory

There are a number of things that I love about this situation:

1) She’s answering emails in poem form, which I imagine makes her correspondence look like a really long quote included in her signature block.

2) She’s crafting. I have a feeling there’s an angry patchwork quilt with baby doll heads sewn to it with Elisabeth’s name on it. Well, it’s not so much that I have a feeling as much as that I’m trying to will it so.

By LT

  1. LoRider

    And she ended the poem by saying:

    I’m fat
    Won’t someone please
    love me?

    Ride Lo

  2. nanc'

    I can’t believe a “professional” would respond to a corporate message or write to a company with a POEM. Good gawd.

  3. Thaddeus van Worthingheimer

    Here’s one I suspect she’ll write in the future.

    “called the troops
    terrorists
    now career
    is over
    america hates
    rosie

    should not have been
    a huge bitch
    and made
    elizabeth defend
    ridiculous thoughts”

  4. Zekers

    I used to think Rosie was pretty funny when she did stand-up. Once she got her own talk show, she became too full of herself and came off (to me) as just another power-hungry performer. She is an opinionated woman, which is fine, many of us are; her trouble starts when she intentionally bullies people with her beliefs; beliefs that she frequently can’t back up with sense, which is where she loses me. Lately, she just comes off as a bully and an immature one at that. She may have increased the ratings for The View, but I think she has disappointed a large portion of her View supporters with her juvenile rants during the show. She just looked stupid…

  5. fingerpainting

    Oh, that is going to be one rage filled macaroni necklace.

  6. ELH

    This chick is insane. Insane and ugly. what a bad combo.

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