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

[RICHARD HOWIE]

Thanks Milan.
Ellen 

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> On Jan 14, 2021, at 11:36 AM, Milan Hamilton via OE <oe at lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:
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> 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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>> ❤ 
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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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