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| Author | Dave Anderson |
| Date | 02/10/29/03:14 |
| Hit Count | 750 |
| Boulder poet Joe Richey...
Dave ------------------------------------------------- I Hear America Crying After hearing that a Turbo-prop King Air crashed 175 north of Minneapolis killing Senator Paul Wellstone, his wife Sheila, daughter Marcia, pilots and three campaign staff members. I hear America crying, the varied sobs I hear, Those of mechanics, wiping their eyes in their cold black fingers, The carpenter crying as he measures a plank, The mason crying at a North Country red light, Moms wait in front of schools crying into their car radios, The secretary crying into the top drawer of her desk, Crying in VFWs all through the Great Lake states, The gay shipping clerks hugging, crying beside the water cooler, The clear-eyed profs of Carleton College go teary beneath the twirling dying foliage, Software designers are crying, I am crying, the Republican Governors are crying, even Rush Limbuagh gave pause, While America cried for Senator Paul Wellstone who died with wife and daughter pilots and crew in a frozen rain today. Joseph Richey Derived from Whitman |