Best Ask Not What Your Country Can Do For You Poems

I’m watching television, black and white, January 1961
A surge of expectancy in the populace, the dream
Kids in the White House, a buzz of activity
New president...

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When I was born in 1949, Harry Truman was the President of The United States.  Of course I do not personally remember him. ...

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she was dressed in pink 

   excited people lined  streets 

      red roses she held

  ...

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Eight inches of snow saw no hat on his head
an act of derring-do, my father said,
   He ascended the steps
   the...

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Saying, My name is Gabriel, I stand in the presence of 'God....
Whom seekest thou, Mary ? My Lord, while tears caressed her cheeks
His Majesty is...

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Ask not what your country can do for you,
don’t question whether your nation will bleed 
red, white and blue true
Tax bleed thru and thru for...

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Great Britain !

What is actually Great about Britain ?

Is it our overriding sense of Virtue ?

How we feel it is our God given right to...

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In my America
The government is elected
The people  support the  government
Representatives of the people would represent 
Partisanship would be reserved for elections
Senators would not...

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The Privilege

I hold this truth to be self-evident
that freedom is not a right
it is a privilege
given to us not only by the courageous people
who sacrifice...

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A sojourner,  I cross the years to look
   sliding pass the history books
and read while listening.

Stepping through time, moments of tenacity finds
...

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We hereby solemnly pledge on our sacred honor.
Fully realize, "now is the time which try men's
souls." Admitting, "we are in clear and present
danger! Fully recognizing...

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Today, would never be elected!
He'd be run out of rooms.
How dare he ask us:
"Ask not what your country can 
do for you, ask what you can
do...

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"United there is little we cannot do in a host
of cooperative ventures. Divided there is little we 
can do - for we dare not meet...

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we must have forgotten...
the pyramid's foundation, rotten.
Physiological begets Safety.
shadowing the State of coercion, states thee.
opt-in by creation, opt-out, your expiration.
tread on me and my countrymen.
volition...

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