Lawrence Ferlinghetti (After Khalil Gibran) 2007
Pity the nation whose people are sheep
And whose shepherds mislead them
Pity the nation whose leaders are liars
Whose sages are silenced
And whose bigots haunt the airwaves
Pity the nation that raises not its voice
Except to praise conquerors
And acclaim the bully as hero
And aims to rule the world
By force and by torture
Pity the nation that knows
No other language but its own
And no other culture but its own
Pity the nation whose breath is money
And sleeps the sleep of the too well fed
Pity the nation oh pity the people
who allow their rights to erode
and their freedoms to be washed away
My country, tears of thee
Sweet land of liberty!
3 comments:
I don't know whether this nation should be pitied or whether simply recognized for what it has become.
A nation's government that lies and cannot be trusted.
A nation's government whose "soul" has turned black.
A nation's government who values little and knows the true value of nothing.
A nation's government that views 60% of the nation's people as evil and the enemy.
A nation both Hitler and Stalin would smile on.
A nation's government that hasn't a clue as to how to successfully govern to create the greatest goid for the greatest numbers.
Without a shred of evidence, Trump has blamed the Left for Kirk's killing. That is inflammatory rhetoric that will only get more people killed.
The chorus of MAGA blaming the Left makes me wonder how they're so sure that it was the Left that killed Kirk. What do they know that we don't know?
Who knows? But the one thing I'm pretty sure of given tRump's demonstrated dishonesty is that if it was a right leaning individual every effort will be made to cover it up or lie and continue to say that it was a "libtard."
The US government con no longer be trusted to tell the truth and ANYTHING.
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