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A Thought for Today
And each of those who teaches another what is right, they
make the country powerful, strong and shining bright.
-from "The Power Bright & Shining."
Happy Birthday
America!
POSITION I’m neither right nor left
and certainly not center.
To me to be among
the silent majority
means to be among the dead.
And for me
not two or ten or two hundred
make up a minority.
Every man is such
because every man is different.
If I met a man
who looked like me
and thought like me
and walked and spoke like me
and was in no way
different from me
only then would I consider slaying him
for he would have stolen from me
all those truths
and all those lies
I'd found out for myself.
All the living
that had brought me here
that man would have erased
by being just like me.
But kill a man unlike myself ?
Not likely.
There might be something
I could learn from him.
There is so much I need to know,
why there are no butterflies
in the world’s backyard,
and when I find it out
I need to know
how to get them back.
Men trample beauty underfoot
like it was gravel.
These actions are confined
to no one country
but I resent it in my own
because I love my country.
Could it be
that men join clubs
as men carry them
for security.
But from what ?
My security is my country
and everything I am in life
and everything I know
and everything I care about
revolves around it.
And I live in America
and I find its face not ugly
except sometimes.
-from “The Power Bright &
Shining,“ 1985
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