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To see a World...

"To See a World..."

(Fragments from "Auguries of Innocence"

To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.

A Robin Redbreast in a Cage
Puts all Heaven in a Rage.
A dove house fill’d with doves and pigeons
Shudders Hell thro’ all its regions.
A Dog starv’d at his Master’s Gate
Predicts the ruin of the State.
A Horse misus’d upon the Road
Calls to Heaven for Human blood.
Each outcry of the hunted Hare
A fiber from the Brain does tear.

He who shall train the Horse to War
Shall never pass the Polar Bar.
The Beggar’s Dog and Widow’s Cat,
Feed them and thou wilt grow fat.
The Gnat that sings his Summer song
Poison gets from Slander’s tongue.
The poison of the Snake and Newt
Is the sweat of Envy’s Foot.

A truth that’s told with bad intent
Beats all the Lies you can invent.
It is right it should be so;
Man was made for Joy and Woe;
And when this we rightly know
Thro’ the World we safely go.

Every Night and every Morn
Some to Misery are Born.
Every Morn and every Night
Some are Born to sweet delight.
Some are Born to sweet delight,
Some are Born to Endless Night.

- William Blake

“Nobody’s going to save you.
No one’s going to cut you down, cut the thorns thick around you.
No one’s going to storm the castle walls nor kiss awake your birth,
Climb down your hair,
Nor mount you onto the white steed.
There is no one who will feed the yearning.
Face it.
You will have to do,
Do it yourself.”

``Gloria E. Anzaldúa

“Write with your eyes like painters,
With your ears like musicians,
With your feet like dancers.
You are the truthsayer with quill and torch.
Write with your tongues on fire.”
― Gloria E. Anzaldúa

Donald Trump continues to say in every way possible that power and privilege in America is primarily the provenance of people who are white, male, Christian and straight, and that all others should be targeted for denial, oppression or removal.... The assaults on common decency in general, but on traditionally marginalized populations in particular, have come like an unending barrage of bullets.... We are witnessing the boot come swiftly down on the necks of women and minorities. We are seeing a program of minority removal — from the free population, from the work force, from the dole (as they see it), from the country itself. We are seeing an uplifting of whiteness to the detriment of non-whiteness. We are seeing the end of unity and the rise of factions and fascism....Sometimes you simply have to call a thing a thing, and the thing here is that Trump’s inner racist is being revealed, and America’s not-so-silent racists are rising in applause.

Charles M. Blow, New York Times Op-Ed Columnist, Sept. 7, 2017
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/07/o...-revealed.html

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