America

The Unfinished Work

Jay Leonard Schwartz Occupy Karma , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

A Personal Reflection on July 4th:

Every nation has moments it chooses to remember.

Some celebrate independence. Others remember liberation, unification, peace, or the end of conflict. Whatever the occasion, these moments invite us to reflect on what we have inherited, what unfinished work remains, and what some people are still fighting for even today.

As July 4th approaches in the USA, I find myself returning to a line from Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address in 1863:

“It is for us the living… to be dedicated here to the unfinished work…”

Those words have stayed with me for years.

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My Modicum Of Free Sentiment

Jay Leonard Schwartz Dadaism, Poetry & Prose , , , , , , , , , , ,

“My Modicum Of Free Sentiment”

Where is America, you white devil?
Down in old glory, in a helluva
blinding blitzkrieg of bling.
And you, my flaming sullen Greece,
not so far behind,
with nothing to the table
did you bring?
Ah yes, democracy,
in which all votes go to the usual swine,
and to their constituents
trickle down the usual piss, vinegar and aftershave-cum-wine.

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