So it comes as a bit of a surprise that Hall’s final poem was likely written four years earlier, according to The Times. In the 2014 U.S. Senate race in New Hampshire, the contest between Democrat Jeanne Shaheen and Republican Scott Brown, inspired Hall to write:Get out of town, You featherheaded carpetbagging Wall St. clown, Scott Brown! Brown, a former U.S. senator representing Massachusetts, moved to New Hampshire to run in the 2014 election. Brown’s staff was not happy with the poem at the time and called Hall “a partisan poet,” The Boston Globe said. The Globe said of the poem: “It was just three lines long but packed a punch.”The way Hall described it, according to the Times, was, “Someone put it on the internet and it went bacterial.”

Source: Huffington Post August 02, 2018 11:48 UTC