[Oe List ...] A Poem in place of an angry rant!

[Wesson Gaige]

This is great.  If only I could tell who ‘I’ is.  There is so much value in adding a signature to posts.  It helps me keep from getting lost.  Everything is currently being ascribed to ‘Herman F Greene’.

Wesson E Gaige
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> On Jan 13, 2021, at 16:25, Milan Hamilton via OE <oe at lists.wedgeblade.net <mailto:oe at lists.wedgeblade.net>> wrote:
> 
> I've been working on this poem for a week. In light of today's second impeachment of a U.S. President ever, with my feelings of having been trampled under foot by a mob of insurrectionists and my head both feeling like it is going to explode or implode, I believe poetry is my only recourse😡🤬🤯
>  
> What If . . .
> What if we changed our thinking?
> Seems to me it has been stinking—
> Thinking, that is!
> And what if we transformed our vocabulary?
> Maybe a little less military?
>  
> Hey! I just had one,
> A thought, I mean—check it out!
> Is it odiferous?
>  
> Let’s eliminate all “isms”
> That might mitigate current schisms,
> See life through myriad prisms,
> Instead of only black and white
> Or absolutes: “You’re wrong! I’m right!”
>  
> Capital’s essential, you know,
> For entrepreneurs and commerce flow.
> But adding “ism” always starts a fight:
> Smith or Keynes, Marx or Malthus;
> Each an ism in its own right.
>  
> Being social’s a healthy attitude,
> Even communal, although a platitude.
> But tack on that suffix, we become bellicose,
> We can’t see our neighbor, at least not up close.
>  
> My fellow Americans, sans ism,
> Be a patriot, proud of our national rhythm
> Don’t you think it’s off track?
> How to ever get it back?
>  
> Let’s be fans—not fanatics
> And honor our heroes
> While shunning the ones who lead us astray.
> No need to name them; we know by their actions:
> “By their fruits you shall know them.” Eliminate factions.
> A new thought—a new verbiage, a better way!
>  
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