Mesmerize Us

Americans today are quite polarized
  All we do is complain and criticize
The rhetoric ramping ever upward, uncivilized
  The ranting and the raving has us desensitized

We sorely need something to mobilize us
  An event to overwhelm and mesmerize us
E.T., please come back to Earth and hypnotize us
  Leave us not to our own devices...

Copyright © | Year Posted 2019



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Date: 5/12/2019 4:42:00 PM
I am laughing so loudly. I have an E.T. poster in my office, across from where I sit every day! None of the children have ever seen E.T. or heard of E.T. and yet I love the entire movie so much! Thank you for showing us the error of our ranting raving ways! If E.T. phones home, I will SoupMail you. He can fluctuate back and forth between Kansas City and Chicago.
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Gershon Wolf
Date: 5/12/2019 7:30:00 PM
Sounds like a plan. Sad(?) that a generation is growing up with no knowledge of ET... They probably have never heard of Chaplin or Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. either. (WHO?!) ... ~ gw
Date: 5/12/2019 3:57:00 PM
That would be exciting for a while...and those ETs better be good...All the best Gershon...
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Gershon Wolf
Date: 5/12/2019 7:27:00 PM
Yeah, they had better be good, or else we'll … ? ~ gw
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