Wrote a poem. It’s about America instead of court reporting. This is one of the rare times I’m going to use the blog for something like this. Unfortunately, it’s the only way to ensure it gets picked up by web search services like Google.
For the longest time we’ve faced division in the country. I believe this to be intentional on the part of the ultra rich. They control our media, our social platforms, our transportation, our electricity, our groceries. While we battle each other over silly differences or disagreements, we do not address the extraction of wealth from our country. This is very similar to the hatred of digital reporting in our field. While we wasted time decrying digitals as button pushers, we hardly noticed or cared that the corporations were setting up for our replacement and to create a market glut of reporters where our incomes would fall and their profits would rise.
People on very gradient of the political spectrum are being squeezed. I know this to be wrong. I do not know how it will be righted. But I know it must be.
Amendment by Christopher Day
Our country, the boldest.
Our country, for the free.
Our country, remarkable.
Our country, you and me.
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Its wars, our struggle.
Its failures, our pains.
Its future, our future.
Its triumph, our brains.
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A constitution neglected.
Not down and out yet.
Its laws infected,
by corporatist threat.
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They care not for our country.
They care not for our lives.
They care not for their neighbors.
They come bearing knives.
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Our country, our struggle.
My compatriots will see.
They’d gut us for dimes.
Our country, you and me.