| From our current affairs editor, Lemuel Stuart III: First came the dreadful GOP healthcare bill (more like Trump deathcare). Then came Trump’s shocking budget proposal. Now we have Ben Carson declaring “poverty to a large extent is also a state of mind.” Remember when the GOP claimed a monopoly on family values? Now they don’t even pretend. Cruelty and heartlessness are at the core of the party’s policies and proposals. Hmmm…I wonder what Jesus would do? Of course, their malice toward all (except the wealthy) calls to mind Emmett Lee Dickinson’s now-classic poem “None can experience it” (below on the left). Dickinson’s poem is not likely to inspire the GOP to change their ways, but it did inspire his third cousin Emily to pen her poem “None can experience stint” (below on the right). |  |
| By Emmett Lee Dickinson: None can experience it With Bounty – have not known – A life of Famine – cannot see Settings to which we’re Born – Want – is a state of Mind? An outlook that’s Perverse – That Poverty does not want Wealth – Is moral Indigence. | By Emily Dickinson: None can experience stint Who Bounty – have not known – The fact of Famine – could not be Except for Fact of Corn – Want – is a meagre Art Acquired by Reverse – The Poverty that was not Wealth – Cannot be Indigence. |
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