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| ===== How It Happened ===== | ===== How It Happened ===== | ||
| - | === Second Negation === | + | ==== Second Negation ==== |
| - | === by Sam Friedman === | + | **by Sam Friedman** |
| - | == 1. Notes on the Day after the Revolution == | + | === 1. Notes on the Day after the Revolution === |
| As crowds partied loudly on glass-glittered sidewalks\\ | As crowds partied loudly on glass-glittered sidewalks\\ | ||
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| with friends in Santos and Granada, Bangkok and Kampala,\\ | with friends in Santos and Granada, Bangkok and Kampala,\\ | ||
| Melbourne, Tacoma, Portland, and Detroit. | Melbourne, Tacoma, Portland, and Detroit. | ||
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| + | === 2. E-mail from an 8 year old I received yesterday, December 2, 2117 === | ||
| + | |||
| + | Dear Sam, | ||
| + | |||
| + | All the kids in my class admire\\ | ||
| + | your poems of revolution,\\ | ||
| + | your verse on how bruised feelings\\ | ||
| + | and hunger\\ | ||
| + | came to snap and cohere. | ||
| + | |||
| + | But none of us can quite comprehend\\ | ||
| + | the silly times you lived in. | ||
| + | |||
| + | Why were all the TV shows\\ | ||
| + | about cops and lawyers?\\ | ||
| + | Weren’t more people killed by corporations\\ | ||
| + | than by murderers?\\ | ||
| + | And just how were they different,\\ | ||
| + | any how?\\ | ||
| + | and didn’t shop stewards and community organizers\\ | ||
| + | have more guts than any old cop?\\ | ||
| + | more sense than lawyers? | ||
| + | |||
| + | And all those shows about love and sex?\\ | ||
| + | Why would men want women so inane?\\ | ||
| + | And why were all their lines so trite? | ||
| + | |||
| + | And work—we don’t understand work at all!\\ | ||
| + | Why did any one work\\ | ||
| + | at such hateful jobs?\\ | ||
| + | If engineers were so smart,\\ | ||
| + | why did they design factories\\ | ||
| + | that poisoned all the whales? \\ | ||
| + | Whales were so cute!\\ | ||
| + | Why did they make it\\ | ||
| + | so we could never meet one? | ||
| + | |||
| + | Why would any one become a soldier?\\ | ||
| + | When ordered to shoot their enemies,\\ | ||
| + | why didn’t soldiers obey\\ | ||
| + | and shoot their officers? | ||
| + | |||
| + | When the owners paid boys more than girls,\\ | ||
| + | or whites more than blacks,\\ | ||
| + | or old-timers more than new hires,\\ | ||
| + | why didn’t the workers\\ | ||
| + | or Neighborhood Action Centers\\ | ||
| + | take over their workplaces\\ | ||
| + | that very same day? | ||
| + | |||
| + | Did kids after school\\ | ||
| + | play “Design a better air de-polluter”\\ | ||
| + | or “Spin the Bottle”\\ | ||
| + | at their Neighborhood Action Centers\\ | ||
| + | the way we do now? | ||
| + | |||
| + | Why didn’t the grown-ups\\ | ||
| + | play baseball outside with their friends\\ | ||
| + | instead of watching it inside\\ | ||
| + | with their bags of potato chips?\\ | ||
| + | Didn’t they have any friends? | ||
| + | |||
| + | And you, Sam? \\ | ||
| + | We also just do not understand you. | ||
| + | |||
| + | Why did you keep doing “AIDS research”?\\ | ||
| + | And what was “AIDS” anyway? What was “disease”?\\ | ||
| + | Why not retire\\ | ||
| + | and work full time\\ | ||
| + | to bring on the revolution sooner,\\ | ||
| + | before all the whales had died? | ||
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