Pompton Lake vicinity December 27, 2016

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DeKorte December 22, 2016

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December, 2016

We had our hopes raised up

Listening to the young Black man speaking eloquently

Against the backdrop of centuries of racism

At long last the country would take a progressive turn.

We got no such thing when he got in

We got passive acquiescence to legislative obstruction

We got no help to stop rampant police murders of innocents

We got endless imperialist wars and mass surveillance.

When no one wants more of the same

Now we are going to get something different

With the screen of democratic pretensions dropped

With the billionaires and their generals dictating terms.

Their plan is to bring back the bad old days and call it good

No minimum wage, no environmental safeguards

No social safety net for the poor and unemployed

No regulations against unbridled capitalism.

Every gain for equality won through the struggle now under attack

The civil rights equal opportunity laws

The reproductive rights of women

The gender identity and sexual orientation rights.

Heedless of the damage their greed does to the future of the earth

Denying the incontrovertible truth of climate change

All this in a desperate effort to maximize their profits

Taken unjustly from the people of the world.

Their wealth matters not at all to any thinking person

Who sees that they inextricably create poverty and pollution

When there could be abundance and sustainability

If government served all the people all the time.

May that thought be the idea whose time has come

Rising up in the inevitable struggle forced upon us

The change that will change everything

The hope of all the years past for a better world.

Celery Farm ice December 15, 2016

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