Comments on: Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 28, 1986

By: Leonard Hart

Leonard Hart — Sat, 02 Sep 2023 23:52:45 +0000

Glory be to a vile entity,
That consumes us all.

By: John Roger Hoffman

John Roger Hoffman — Sun, 27 Nov 2022 17:34:51 +0000

Well, here we are, another year later. I feel more depressed about the future than at this time last year. ALL of the people, elected pols. former Republican Presidents, et al., all escaped the imprecatory hopes and prayers of a concerned nation. Dammit, anyway! No drunken arrests, no highway crashes, no shootings, nothing.

By: Griff Jay

Griff Jay — Thu, 24 Nov 2022 20:03:54 +0000

(No, it is not duplicate, because your message service obliterated the first copy I submitted.) I’m submitting this again because your message service suppressed all the phrasing I had bracketed between less than “” characters.
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I vote for finding something else. I doubt Howard Zinn wrote very lyrically, but I would like some kind of poem that says “We know well this (atrocity) (injustice)(horribleness)(massacre) , but choose to (honor)(remember)(give thanks for) this person who stood her/his ground, who represented good against the evil we’ve too often been complicit in.” That could be a long poem indeed. But still it might leave one with a glimmer of hope. Denounce the bad, find the good, and praise it.

By: Griff Jay

Griff Jay — Thu, 24 Nov 2022 19:59:49 +0000

I’m submitting this again because your message service suppressed all the phrasing I had bracketed between less than “” characters.
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I vote for finding something else. I doubt Howard Zinn wrote very lyrically, but I would like some kind of poem that says “We know well this (atrocity) (injustice)(horribleness)(massacre) , but choose to (honor)(remember)(give thanks for) this person who stood her/his ground, who represented good against the evil we’ve too often been complicit in.” That could be a long poem indeed. But still it might leave one with a glimmer of hope. Denounce the bad, find the good, and praise it.

By: Griff Jay

Griff Jay — Thu, 24 Nov 2022 19:50:37 +0000

I vote for finding something else.

I doubt Howard Zinn wrote very lyrically, but I would like some kind of poem that says “We know well this , but choose to this person who stood her/his ground, who represented good against the evil we too often have been complicit in.”

That could be a long poem indeed. But still it might leave one with a glimmer of hope.

Denounce the bad, find the good, and praise it.

By: johnrhoffman

johnrhoffman — Sun, 28 Nov 2021 18:24:05 +0000

I read this essay/poem a long time ago. I was feeling pretty good about things until I readf it a few seconds ago.