Palin the Poet! Who knew?

I don’t watch the Tonight Show so I missed this. I can’t believe that I missed it and that Conan O’Brien was, at least on this occasion, a more astute literary critic than I, but when you hear William Shatner perform it with that bass and percussion accompaniment, it is so clear. Palin’s farewell speech as a poem. A homage to the Beat Generation, no less. Odd coming from a Bible thumper like her, but just listen to it. How can you argue?