Thursday, February 14, 2013

State of the Union Focus

Our unfinished task:
Restore the basic bargain
that built this country—
the idea
that if you work hard,
if you meet your responsibilities,
you can get ahead,
no matter where you come from,
no matter what you look like,
no matter who you love.

Our unfinished task:
Make sure that government works
on behalf of the many,
not just the few.

Barack Obama’s speeches are so poetic that I have to do very little to them to transform them into a poem.
  
© 2012 Catherine Giordano

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1 comment:

  1. Yes, Mr. Obama has a lot of poetic words. It seems that our country is sinking deeper and deeper into a very poetic hole, dragging the beautifully worded Constitution with it.

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