Wednesday, February 1, 2017

Please Answer All Questions In the Name of Patriotism and the Flag

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Questionnaire

How much poison are you willing
to eat for the success of the free
market and global trade? Please
name your preferred poisons.

For the sake of goodness, how much
evil are you willing to do?
Fill in the following blanks
with the names of your favorite
evils and acts of hatred.

What sacrifices are you prepared
to make for culture and civilization?
Please list the monuments, shrines,
and works of art you would
most willingly destroy

In the name of patriotism and
the flag, how much of our beloved
land are you willing to desecrate?
List in the following spaces
the mountains, rivers, towns, farms
you could most readily do without.

State briefly the ideas, ideals, or hopes,
the energy sources, the kinds of security;
for which you would kill a child.
Name, please, the children whom
you would be willing to kill.


Wendell Berry





Take heart. Stay strong. 

Read this.

Be in the 3.5%.

#RESIST

8 comments:

  1. Is this a recent poem? It reads like it was written yesterday. Stunning.

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  2. I though the same as Angella, it could have been written just now.
    xoxo
    Barbara

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  3. Have you read this?
    http://smartishpace.com/issues/issue_24/self-portrait_with_no_flag/
    NOLA posted it on her blog and I can't stop thinking about it.

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  4. Powerful and intense. Thanks.

    Greetings from London.

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  6. And, of course, always take solace in "The Peace of Wild Things"
    http://billmoyers.com/story/peace-wild-things/

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  7. Resistance has never been more important.

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