If it is possible for anything good to come out of the tragic shooting in Arizona it is the emergence of Sheriff Clarence W. Dupnik.  Not only is he a charismatic law enforcement officer that will not enforce Arizona’s immigration laws, it also turns out he is a talented poet and performance artist who uses his public appearances to express his art.

We here at the World Wide Headquarters of Manhattan Infidel are always excited whenever a brilliant new artist appears upon the scene.  We’d like to take this opportunity (before the Feds shut down this “rhetorically charged, hate-filled” blog) to feature the works of this brilliant, ironic, satirical artist/sheriff.

Perhaps his best known work is one entitled, “Cognitive Dissonance“:

I will not enforce this State’s racist immigration laws

Mexicans mow my lawn

Rush Limbaugh is responsible

He followed this up with another critically acclaimed piece of Haiku called “Law?”:

The Law?  It’s just irresponsible.

Our jails will be filled in a day.

Out in the fields

I fight for my meals

I put my back into my living.

I have a Mexican cook.

Another moving poem (that has been nominated for a Pulitzer) is called “I’m a Democrat””

I miss the country I grew up in.

Negroes not allowed to vote.

It is all Sara Palin’s fault.

His most famous work is called “The Left Side”:

The hatred, the anger, the bigotry that goes on

In this country is 

Outrageous

If you disagree with me you are a racist.

As for what is next for Sheriff Dupnik, sources close to him say that he plans to use his recent publicity to go on a tour of the United States, where he will read his works while in his pajamas and reclining in bed, with his wife next to him and posters that say “Hair=Peace” and “Bed=Peace” behind him.

Ultimately, Sheriff Dupnik plans to end his tour in Greenwich Village in New York City where he hopes to hang out in coffee shops, wearing a beret, sipping cappuccino and talking to like-minded artists.

“I want to be known as a thinking man’s sheriff/poet/performance artist.  And please tone down your inflammatory rhetoric.”

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