[Newspoetry] 7/24 newspoem
Geoffrey Kurtz
geoffk at eden.rutgers.edu
Thu Jul 25 08:34:45 CDT 2002
Say News Breaks Free
it amazes me
this week
new democratic hopes
hopped up the stairs
gnawed through the duct tape
on less than $2 a day
kicked out a wooden panel
increasingly pointed in its criticisms
punched out a window and
underestimated what it takes to build
after years of violent turf wars
millions losing faith
a dwindling confidence in
kicking and screaming
the real agenda of the world's poor
may have been a target
functioning, properly rooted
it can happen right here
through the narrow opening
not in dry economic statistics but in the lives of ordinary citizens
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/24/national/24GIRL.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/24/international/24DEMO.html
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