<div dir="ltr">Thank you, Jim.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div>Mary Laura Jones</div>
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<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jan 29, 2017 at 9:05 AM, James Wiegel via OE <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net" target="_blank">oe@lists.wedgeblade.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div><div id="m_6716415836948333418AppleMailSignature">"TWO POEMS FROM THIS MORNING</div><div id="m_6716415836948333418AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="m_6716415836948333418AppleMailSignature">A Ritual to Read to Each Other" </div><div id="m_6716415836948333418AppleMailSignature">by William Stafford</div><div id="m_6716415836948333418AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="m_6716415836948333418AppleMailSignature">If you don't know the kind of person I am </div><div id="m_6716415836948333418AppleMailSignature">and I don't know the kind of person you are </div><div id="m_6716415836948333418AppleMailSignature">a pattern that others made may prevail in the</div><div id="m_6716415836948333418AppleMailSignature"> world </div><div id="m_6716415836948333418AppleMailSignature">and following the wrong god home we may miss</div><div id="m_6716415836948333418AppleMailSignature"> our star.</div><div id="m_6716415836948333418AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="m_6716415836948333418AppleMailSignature">For there is many a small betrayal in the mind, </div><div id="m_6716415836948333418AppleMailSignature">a shrug that lets the fragile sequence break </div><div id="m_6716415836948333418AppleMailSignature">sending with shouts the horrible errors of</div><div id="m_6716415836948333418AppleMailSignature"> childhood </div><div id="m_6716415836948333418AppleMailSignature">storming out to play through the broken dike.</div><div id="m_6716415836948333418AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="m_6716415836948333418AppleMailSignature">And as elephants parade holding each</div><div id="m_6716415836948333418AppleMailSignature"> elephant's tail, </div><div id="m_6716415836948333418AppleMailSignature">but if one wanders the circus won't find the</div><div id="m_6716415836948333418AppleMailSignature"> park, </div><div id="m_6716415836948333418AppleMailSignature">I call it cruel and maybe the root of all cruelty </div><div id="m_6716415836948333418AppleMailSignature">to know what occurs but not recognize the fact.</div><div id="m_6716415836948333418AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="m_6716415836948333418AppleMailSignature">And so I appeal to a voice, to something</div><div id="m_6716415836948333418AppleMailSignature"> shadowy, </div><div id="m_6716415836948333418AppleMailSignature">a remote important region in all who talk: </div><div id="m_6716415836948333418AppleMailSignature">though we could fool each other, we should</div><div id="m_6716415836948333418AppleMailSignature"> consider—</div><div id="m_6716415836948333418AppleMailSignature">lest the parade of our mutual life get lost in the</div><div id="m_6716415836948333418AppleMailSignature">dark.</div><div id="m_6716415836948333418AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="m_6716415836948333418AppleMailSignature">For it is important that awake people be awake,</div><div id="m_6716415836948333418AppleMailSignature">or a breaking line may discourage them back to</div><div id="m_6716415836948333418AppleMailSignature"> sleep; </div><div id="m_6716415836948333418AppleMailSignature">the signals we give — yes or no, or maybe —</div><div id="m_6716415836948333418AppleMailSignature">should be clear: the darkness around us is deep.</div><div id="m_6716415836948333418AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="m_6716415836948333418AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="m_6716415836948333418AppleMailSignature">Deeply grateful to Helen Gerhardt for this: ............................ I know, I know</div><div id="m_6716415836948333418AppleMailSignature">If you could go back you</div><div id="m_6716415836948333418AppleMailSignature">would walk with Jesus</div><div id="m_6716415836948333418AppleMailSignature">You would march with King</div><div id="m_6716415836948333418AppleMailSignature">Maybe assassinate Hitler</div><div id="m_6716415836948333418AppleMailSignature">At least hide Jews in your basement</div><div id="m_6716415836948333418AppleMailSignature">It would all be clear to you</div><div id="m_6716415836948333418AppleMailSignature">But people then, just like you</div><div id="m_6716415836948333418AppleMailSignature">were baffled, had bills</div><div id="m_6716415836948333418AppleMailSignature">to pay and children they didn’t</div><div id="m_6716415836948333418AppleMailSignature">understand and they too</div><div id="m_6716415836948333418AppleMailSignature">were so desperate for normalcy</div><div id="m_6716415836948333418AppleMailSignature">they made anything normal</div><div id="m_6716415836948333418AppleMailSignature">Even turning everything inside out</div><div id="m_6716415836948333418AppleMailSignature">Even killing, and killing, and it’s easy</div><div id="m_6716415836948333418AppleMailSignature">for turning the other cheek</div><div id="m_6716415836948333418AppleMailSignature">to be looking the other way, for walking</div><div id="m_6716415836948333418AppleMailSignature">to be talking, and they hid</div><div id="m_6716415836948333418AppleMailSignature">in their houses</div><div id="m_6716415836948333418AppleMailSignature">and watched it on television, when they had television,</div><div id="m_6716415836948333418AppleMailSignature">and wrung their hands</div><div id="m_6716415836948333418AppleMailSignature">or didn’t, and your hands</div><div id="m_6716415836948333418AppleMailSignature">are just like theirs. Lined, permeable,</div><div id="m_6716415836948333418AppleMailSignature">small, and you</div><div id="m_6716415836948333418AppleMailSignature">would follow Caesar, and quote McCarthy, and Hoover, and you would want</div><div id="m_6716415836948333418AppleMailSignature">to make Germany great again</div><div id="m_6716415836948333418AppleMailSignature">Because you are afraid, and your</div><div id="m_6716415836948333418AppleMailSignature">parents are sick, and your</div><div id="m_6716415836948333418AppleMailSignature">job pays s@$t and where’s your</div><div id="m_6716415836948333418AppleMailSignature">dignity? Just a little dignity and those kids sitting down in the highway,</div><div id="m_6716415836948333418AppleMailSignature">and chaining themselves to</div><div id="m_6716415836948333418AppleMailSignature">buildings, what’s their f@*#king</div><div id="m_6716415836948333418AppleMailSignature"> problem? And that kid</div><div id="m_6716415836948333418AppleMailSignature">That’s King. And this is Selma. And Berlin. And Jerusalem. And now</div><div id="m_6716415836948333418AppleMailSignature">is when they need you to be brave.</div><div id="m_6716415836948333418AppleMailSignature">Now</div><div id="m_6716415836948333418AppleMailSignature">is when we need you to go back</div><div id="m_6716415836948333418AppleMailSignature">and forget everything you know</div><div id="m_6716415836948333418AppleMailSignature">and give up the things you’re chained to</div><div id="m_6716415836948333418AppleMailSignature">and make it look so easy in your</div><div id="m_6716415836948333418AppleMailSignature">grandkids’ history books (they should still have them, kinehora)</div><div id="m_6716415836948333418AppleMailSignature">Now</div><div id="m_6716415836948333418AppleMailSignature">is when it will all be clear to them.</div><div id="m_6716415836948333418AppleMailSignature">~Danny Bryck</div><div id="m_6716415836948333418AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="m_6716415836948333418AppleMailSignature"><br></div><br><div>Jim Wiegel</div><div><a style="font-size:13pt;background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">401 North Beverly Way, Tolleson, Arizona 85353</a></div><div><font color="#000000">Tel.</font><span style="font-size:13pt;background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"> </span><a href="tel:011-623-936-8671" style="font-size:13pt" target="_blank">011-623-936-8671</a><span style="font-size:13pt;background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"> </span><span style="font-size:13pt;background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">or</span><span style="font-size:13pt;background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"> </span><a href="tel:011-623-363-3277" style="font-size:13pt" target="_blank">011-<wbr>623-363-3277</a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><a rel="nofollow" href="mailto:marilyn.oyler@gmail.com" style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)" target="_blank"><font color="#000000">jfwiegel@yahoo.com</font></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.partnersinparticipation.com/" style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)" target="_blank"><font color="#000000">www.partnersinparticipation.<wbr>com</font></a></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><br></span></div><div>"<span style="font-size:13pt">We are no longer living in an era of change. 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