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On The Steps Of The Jefferson Memorial
All this for that man who, rather full
of himself, snipped pages out of his Holy Bible:
because he could not believe a miracle---
and thought only moral teachings were vital.
He wrote with eloquence of equality---
yet kept human beings in chattel slavery
(oh, the stench of his hypocrisy!),
and worked enslaved children in his nail factory.
And on these steps of chiselled stone,
I spit toward the ghost of that pile of cornpone.
Starward
I have rather belatedly
I have rather belatedly learned of the darker side of this celebrated historical public figure. So much had been glossed over in our history textbooks that we elevated causes and men that a deeper look would show us otherwise.
here is poetry that doesn't always conform
galateus, arkayye, arqios,arquious, crypticbard, excalibard, wordweaver
Yes, it is somewhat shocking
Yes, it is somewhat shocking to learn the truth about some of them. They were fallible and imperfect, and yet God and History used them to create a Republic that, until recently, has been envied all over the world, and imitated (most often poorly) by many, Sad that from 2017-2020, this nation became a pale imitation of itself, and dismissed so many of its highest ideals.
Starward