The End and the Beginning

By Wisława Szymborska

After every war

someone has to clean up.

Things won’t

straighten themselves up, after all.

Someone has to push the rubble

to the side of the road,

so the corpse-filled wagons

can pass.

Someone has to get mired

in scum and ashes,

sofa springs,

splintered glass,

and bloody rags.

Someone has to drag in a girder

to prop

Too Late The Truth

​Haki R. Madhubuti

who quieted the fourth estate,

took words, images, and liberating ideas

from the recently comatosed and stole the nation?

why was there not a storm among us

confronting the wealth of ignorance?

what is the price of deceptive and enriched silence?

who compromised the music of truth,

the poetry of deep thought?

what of th

“If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them.” - George Orwell

"Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do."

Voltaire

“A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world."

-Susan Sontag

“It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.”

Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland