My personal favorite was only a runner up, but you can read the best of the best Palinesque whimsies here.

“The minute I was on that stage in Florida with all those lights in my eyes and the smell of Alaska still on my fingertips and my family, too, all around out there, I was where I dreamed of all those years on the basketball court and in Alaskas’s God given beauty which we must cherish and use as God gave it us to use and in honor of the troops, also.”

—Kaylyn Munro

She certainly resonates as a beat poet…