I'm Plogging Matt Damon

I saw Invictus today and it was pretty good.  Two things helped make it pretty cool, first the eponymous poem Invictus is actually quite bad ass.  It is about staying inspired by stoic in the face of adversity.  It is the kind of thing you would read to yourself in a moment of silence before a big conflict.  Nelson Mandela read this to during his three decades in prison and gives a copy to the captain of an underdog rugby team before the World Cup.  The poet, William Earnest Henley, wrote it from a hospital bed after having his leg amputated.

Then again Timothy McVeigh also used it as his final statement before his execution for the Oklahoma City bombings.  And I just heard a bastardized version on a commercial for TCU's bowl game, so apparently you can crap on any kind of literature you want these days.

Here is the poem in case you are interested, but if you are a soulless monster without any appreciation for poetry then feel free to scroll down.

INVICTUS

Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the Pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds and shall find me unafraid.

It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.

Pretty bad ass, no?  Ok enough of that because good poetry is making my writing feel like a velvet Elvis next to framed Van Goghs.  Well the second reason is that Matt Damon took the role seriously and made himself look like a real rugby player.  So much that he should probably be described as "jacked."

Kind of makes me want to play Mad Libs.  Ok you pick a rugby verb and a rugby noun.  What?  No, you pick them 'cause I don't know any.  Ok insert here: I would let Matt Damon [rugby verb] by [rugby noun] any day!  Now who says collaborative writing doesn't work?

The delicious actor Matt Damon
Attractive to all breathing women or gay men.
Who knew what a Hollywood sensation he would become
When he was just a janitor making Ivy Leaguers look dumb.