Here We Have No Harbingers

February 18, 2019

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Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is politics, in honor of Presidents Day, which is celebrated on February 20.

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A poem about the gloomy prospects of a country deep in debt:

Here we have no harbingers,

No hints of what's to come.

We add up all our prophesies,

But cannot find a sum.

It's bad, it's bad – that's all we know.

We've spent our legacy,

And now must bear ballooning debt

Through poisonous debris.

The engineers and CEOs,

The bankers, brokers, boards,

Accountants and attorneys for

The all-but-knighted lords --

They did all right, those scavengers

Who ravaged lives and lands

To build a rag-tag vessel that

Will go down with all hands.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Politics

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