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

[Milan Hamilton]

Sorry I usually try to remember adding that because I have the same issue identifying who is writing in these long strings.😳 Milan Hamilton

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> On Jan 14, 2021, at 7:33 AM, Frank Knutson via OE <oe at lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:
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> VERY GOOD M.
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>> On Jan 14, 2021, at 1:14 AM, Wesson Gaige via OE <oe at lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:
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>> 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> 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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