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By DIANA BIRD
Rappahannock News Contributing Writer
Poets and other writers know that it is easier to produce a work of trouble, sorrow and lament than one of laughter and joy. The most one can hope to do is to be both humorous and rueful — persuade people to laugh at their absurdity.
Looking for a contemporary poem voicing today’s concerns in a recognizably modem world, I found Bum Out by Brian O’Neill, a man new to publication, working as poetin-the-schools in Indiana. His title we have come to associate with people giving up from working at a demanding, often discouraging job.
O’Neill uses “bum out” to portray also the reason for his feelings, the over-riding interest of high school students in speeding in cars, in burning up the rubber on the roads. He says one particular boy, George Galloway, is the envy of everyone — troopers can’t catch him.
On first reading the poem, I was puzzled because George Galloway has false teeth — is he an old man? Then I recalled how someone told
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