Sixty-Six Is Now in Full Career

February 22, 2020

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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 this year was celebrated on February 17.

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A political number poem about an activist who uses music to combat racism and injustice:

Sixty-six is now in full career,

Invested in an activist esthetic.

Xenophobes, take heed and you will hear

The songs that undermine your greed and fear,

Your need to make relations hierarchic.

So might the world in time turn empathetic

If oft-sung songs can make delight more dear,

X-ing out the hatreds that hearts sear.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Politics

2/17: Great Ends Demand Great Sacrifice

2/18: Greatness Is Effect Far More than Cause

2/19: Greatness Is the Child of Choice and Chance

2/20: The President Was Without Precedent

2/21: Seventy-Six Has Sown the Sacred Seed

2/22: Sixty-Six Is Now in Full Career