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

[Frank Knutson]

VERY GOOD M.
❤ 

> On Jan 14, 2021, at 1:14 AM, Wesson Gaige via OE <oe at lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:
> 
> 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
> wesgaige at mac.com <mailto:wesgaige at mac.com>
> 
>> 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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