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Tuesday, December 26, 2023

New Year's Resolutions (Short List) - R. Rosenblatt op-ed in NY TIMES

from LEAVES OF GRASS (by poet Walt Whitman)

This is what you shall do:

Love the earth and sun and the animals;

Despise riches;

Give alms to everyone who asks;

Stand up for the stupid and crazy.

Re-examine all you have been told

at school or church or in any book;

Dismiss whatever insults your very soul;

Your very flesh shall be a great poem.

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