Sophie’s Voice

While I agree with most of Meryl Streep’s

Comments, I did recoil at her notion

That if we did deport artists, the creeps

Of society would be left to the motion

Of NFL or MMA, and those are not arts,

Quipped the great actress. Having done all three

I think she should recant. Watching a Tom Brady

Drive is like watching a master street painter evoke

A world, and styles like Taekwondo (not to denigrate

The many other types) are poetry in motion. Plus,

And this is especially of MMA, many of the fighters

Are foreign. OK, I’m going to finally watch “Sophie’s

Choice.” It’s the book my mom was reading

When her water broke for me. I’m still with you, Meryl,

But then you’d have to go after Dance, too.

A better target would have been “The New

Celebrity Apprentice” or “The Mobile Strike App”

But that wouldn’t have fit your foreign/nativist dichotomy.