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Friday, September 11, 2015
On This, the Anniversary of 9/11
Lest we forget.
George W. Bush was president, Dick Cheney, Vice President.
Then-President George W. Bush had ignored daily presidential briefs, warning him of a possible attack by air and by terrorists in general and Osama bin Laden specifically.
One Kansas City area resident, Tomas Young, was inspired to join the military after the attack and did so:
Two days after the September 11 attacks, Young was inspired by President George W. Bush to enlist in the United States Army. There he hoped to earn money for college through the G.I. Bill and, in his words, "exact some form of retribution" on those who caused 9/11.
On April 4, 2004, five days after being sent to Iraq, Young was shot while riding in an open, unarmored truck during an ambush staged by rebels in Sadr City. One of the bullets pierced his spine and left him paralyzed from the chest down.
He returned home to Kansas City, Missouri and joined the Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW). He later became a public critic of the Iraq War.
The movie, Body of War, was based on his life and eventual opposition to the Iraq war.
Before his death in November, 2014, he penned the following letter to that President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney.
I post it here, on this anniversary, in hopes of teaching some and so that more not forget what occurred.
To: George W. Bush and Dick Cheney
From: Tomas Young
I write this letter on the 10th anniversary of the Iraq War on behalf of my fellow Iraq War veterans. I write this letter on behalf of the 4,488 soldiers and Marines who died in Iraq. I write this letter on behalf of the hundreds of thousands of veterans who have been wounded and on behalf of those whose wounds, physical and psychological, have destroyed their lives. I am one of those gravely wounded. I was paralyzed in an insurgent ambush in 2004 in Sadr City. My life is coming to an end. I am living under hospice care.
I write this letter on behalf of husbands and wives who have lost spouses, on behalf of children who have lost a parent, on behalf of the fathers and mothers who have lost sons and daughters and on behalf of those who care for the many thousands of my fellow veterans who have brain injuries. I write this letter on behalf of those veterans whose trauma and self-revulsion for what they have witnessed, endured and done in Iraq have led to suicide and on behalf of the active-duty soldiers and Marines who commit, on average, a suicide a day. I write this letter on behalf of the some 1 million Iraqi dead and on behalf of the countless Iraqi wounded. I write this letter on behalf of us all—the human detritus your war has left behind, those who will spend their lives in unending pain and grief.
I write this letter, my last letter, to you, Mr. Bush and Mr. Cheney. I write not because I think you grasp the terrible human and moral consequences of your lies, manipulation and thirst for wealth and power. I write this letter because, before my own death, I want to make it clear that I, and hundreds of thousands of my fellow veterans, along with millions of my fellow citizens, along with hundreds of millions more in Iraq and the Middle East, know fully who you are and what you have done. You may evade justice but in our eyes you are each guilty of egregious war crimes, of plunder and, finally, of murder, including the murder of thousands of young Americans—my fellow veterans—whose future you stole.
Your positions of authority, your millions of dollars of personal wealth, your public relations consultants, your privilege and your power cannot mask the hollowness of your character. You sent us to fight and die in Iraq after you, Mr. Cheney, dodged the draft in Vietnam, and you, Mr. Bush, went AWOL from your National Guard unit. Your cowardice and selfishness were established decades ago. You were not willing to risk yourselves for our nation but you sent hundreds of thousands of young men and women to be sacrificed in a senseless war with no more thought than it takes to put out the garbage.
I joined the Army two days after the 9/11 attacks. I joined the Army because our country had been attacked. I wanted to strike back at those who had killed some 3,000 of my fellow citizens. I did not join the Army to go to Iraq, a country that had no part in the September 2001 attacks and did not pose a threat to its neighbors, much less to the United States. I did not join the Army to “liberate” Iraqis or to shut down mythical weapons-of-mass-destruction facilities or to implant what you cynically called “democracy” in Baghdad and the Middle East. I did not join the Army to rebuild Iraq, which at the time you told us could be paid for by Iraq’s oil revenues. Instead, this war has cost the United States over $3 trillion. I especially did not join the Army to carry out pre-emptive war. Pre-emptive war is illegal under international law. And as a soldier in Iraq I was, I now know, abetting your idiocy and your crimes. The Iraq War is the largest strategic blunder in U.S. history. It obliterated the balance of power in the Middle East. It installed a corrupt and brutal pro-Iranian government in Baghdad, one cemented in power through the use of torture, death squads and terror. And it has left Iran as the dominant force in the region. On every level—moral, strategic, military and economic—Iraq was a failure. And it was you, Mr. Bush and Mr. Cheney, who started this war. It is you who should pay the consequences.
I would not be writing this letter if I had been wounded fighting in Afghanistan against those forces that carried out the attacks of 9/11. Had I been wounded there I would still be miserable because of my physical deterioration and imminent death, but I would at least have the comfort of knowing that my injuries were a consequence of my own decision to defend the country I love. I would not have to lie in my bed, my body filled with painkillers, my life ebbing away, and deal with the fact that hundreds of thousands of human beings, including children, including myself, were sacrificed by you for little more than the greed of oil companies, for your alliance with the oil sheiks in Saudi Arabia, and your insane visions of empire.
I have, like many other disabled veterans, suffered from the inadequate and often inept care provided by the Veterans Administration. I have, like many other disabled veterans, come to realize that our mental and physical wounds are of no interest to you, perhaps of no interest to any politician. We were used. We were betrayed. And we have been abandoned. You, Mr. Bush, make much pretense of being a Christian. But isn’t lying a sin? Isn’t murder a sin? Aren’t theft and selfish ambition sins? I am not a Christian. But I believe in the Christian ideal. I believe that what you do to the least of your brothers you finally do to yourself, to your own soul.
My day of reckoning is upon me. Yours will come. I hope you will be put on trial. But mostly I hope, for your sakes, that you find the moral courage to face what you have done to me and to many, many others who deserved to live. I hope that before your time on earth ends, as mine is now ending, you will find the strength of character to stand before the American public and the world, and in particular the Iraqi people, and beg for forgiveness.
—Tomas Young
Thursday, September 10, 2015
At What Point Do We Agree On Man-Made Global Warming and Climate Change?
With all that's going on this year meteorologically, at what point do people give in and admit that there is global warming, first and that, second, it is, in fact at least heavily human-influenced if not out-and-out humankind created and that we have to do things about it? And soon as possible.
There have been many, many weather events this year, certainly, like all the hundreds of fires across Canada, Alaska, Washington state, Oregon, Idaho and California, at minimum.
Jul 27, 2015 Scorched earth: U.S. wildfires
near record level
Then, more recently, like yesterday, there was the unprecedented, unseasonable and deadly sandstorm in the Middle East.
For the second week in a row, an expansive dust storm slashed visibility and put hundreds in the hospital with respiratory ailments across the Middle East. The countries most affected include Syria, Lebanon, Israel and Jordan.
This storm comes soon after another dust storm, which was shaped like a pinwheeling cyclone that absorbed light, drastically lowered visibility across Iraq on Sept. 1.
'Unprecedented' sandstorm blasts across
Middle East
Mystery of the dust storms
sweeping the world
Terrified residents wait for evacuation by helicopter as the overflowing Kinugawa River rages through Joso, Ibaraki prefecture; 90,000 people were forced to flee their homes
Japan floods: City of Joso hit by
'unprecedented' rain
Record rainfall in Japan has burst riverbanks, ripped houses from their foundations and forced over 100,000 people to flee their homes. The aftermath of Typhoon Etau has also washed tons of radioactive water from the ruined Daiichi nuclear power plant into the Pacific.
In dramatic scenes reminiscent of the tsunami disaster that struck the country’s coast in 2011, residents of Joso City, 34 miles north-east of Tokyo, were rescued from rooftops by Self-Defence Force helicopters. Houses were swamped by a muddy deluge from the Kinugawa River as people were winched to safety, some clutching family pets.
Check out this facts of this rain and flood (emphasis added here):
Weeks of near-daily rain had already left much of Ibaraki and Tochigi prefectures, north/north-east of Tokyo, deluged before the typhoon struck, dumping over 500mm (about 20 inches) of precipitation in just 24 hours in some places – twice the average for the entire month of September. At one point early today over 900,000 people were advised to evacuate. So far, more than 90,000 had been forced to flee the “wall of water”.
It seems the recurring adjective in all this is that each of these events, vastly different as they are and from far flung corners of the planet, is "unprecedented." It's either unprecedented or historic or record-breaking, all true and applicable here.
Other "unprecedented" factors this year? Here's one:
Here's another:
And this last one:
Mind you, these aren't projections, either. This isn't warnings now of what could or might happen in the future. These things are already occurring and they are occurring now, not 20 or 50 or 100 years in the future. And all these events are killing thousands upon thousands of people and displacing and making homeless millions.
Put those few things together---warmer temperatures, more glacier and ice cap melt and rising oceans and to what simple but obvious conclusion do you surely have to come?
Tuesday, September 8, 2015
How Republicans Run Governments
This, ladies and gentlemen, though only from a statehouse, Missouri's Jefferson City, shows precisely how Republicans "run government."
The fact is, they don't legislate and they don't do their jobs, these Republicans.
MoDOT says it doesn’t have the money to fix or replace hundreds of bridges around the state — including the Lincoln County structure — meaning some spans must be closed rather than risk carrying traffic.
But the cash-strapped state agency is still paying off debt it assumed for a round of bridge work a few years ago and says new funding sources must be found to make the necessary repairs and replacements.
Already, three bridges statewide have been shut down indefinitely since the beginning of last year. And 641 — 50 more than a year ago — of MoDOT’s roughly 10,400 bridges have been determined to be in critical condition, the lowest ranking a bridge can earn before being shut down...
That list is expected to grow to 1,500 in the next decade. It currently includes 36 bridges in St. Louis, St. Charles, Franklin and Jefferson counties, as well as in the city of St. Louis.
The same thing is taking place nationally, with the Federal Government, in Washington:
And since 2008, when a certain President was elected to the White House, nary a jobs/infrastructure bill in sight.
Monday, September 7, 2015
What Workers Never Get From Republican Officeholders
Want to see what the average worker in America no way gets from any Republican member of Congress or, God forbid, resident in the White House. This:
Obama observes Labor Day, extends contractors' paid leave
WASHINGTON (AP) — Showing solidarity with workers on Labor Day, President Barack Obama will sign an executive order Monday requiring paid sick leave for employees of federal contractors, including 300,000 who currently receive none.
These things that support workers and the working class and middle and lower classes, they never come from Republicans anymore. They haven't come from Republicans in the last 100 years.
Keep that in mind come any election day.
Sunday, September 6, 2015
Entertainment Overnight -- Sunday Edition
Religion is a smile on a dog
Shove me in the shallow water
before I get too deep
Don't let me get too deep.
It's Looks To Be A Busy, Even Great September
Just glimpsing into what this September is going to bring us, besides Autumn and cooler temperatures, which is always welcome, it seems there's not just a lot of things that are going to take place but a lot of good to great things. Some examples:
--The Iran Deal. Agree or disagree, like it, love it, hate it, whatever, we're very likely now going to get the negotiated Iran deal which we--everyone--need so badly. Sure, disagree if you wish but scientists, military advisers actually in the military and experienced in the region as well as hundreds of Rabbis all came to the same conclusion, that this is a good and smart move. It's good for Iran, good for the region, good for the US, heck, good for the world. (see links, below).
--Also lighter on subject, football. The NFL. And normally I wouldn't mention this but this year, especially the first game of the year, is especially poignant since the New England Patriots and their quarterback/leader Tom Brady will be highlighted. Coming off that rather auspicious win, what with his/their/our "deflategate" seeming scandal and the belief on so many people's part that the game looked rather shady, at least, if not out and out stolen, it should be interesting. Then there was all the courtroom drama this Summer and not that long ago---weeks---when a judge threw out the case of the NFL and commissioner Tom Goodell against Mr. Brady and his Patriots. Heck, the commentary alone on that opening football night and game should be interesting. Fun, even.
--On a far more local, Kansas City note, there's always the Fall art shows--Westport Art Festival next weekend and the Plaza Art Fair--and the UnPlaza Art Fair, of course--the 3rd week.
And that's just a short list. Heaven knows it will be a busy month. Enjoy, y'all.
Links: Dozens of retired generals, admirals back Iran nuclear deal
29 US Scientists Praise Iran Nuclear Deal
340 rabbis urge Congress to support Iran nuclear deal
Saturday, September 5, 2015
Great Uses of Great Old Songs for Terrific TV and Movies, Part IV
Not the best but I still enjoyed it. I'd also never seen it before now, with a little searching for this.
Further Insanity from The Donald
The number one most popular person, nearly unbelievably, in polling regarding the race for the White House, for the presidency in 2016 and he now said the following stupid thing:
Oh, yes he did:
Mr. Trump said he’s already conferred with a number of high-level active military officials and has put together a comprehensive strategy to defeat the Islamic State within his first one hundred days in office. “It starts with the deployment of four or five of our Ohio-class nuclear submarines to the Persian Gulf,” Trump said. “We’re going to hit them and we’re going to hit them hard. I’m talking about a surgical strike on these ISIS stronghold cities using Trident missiles.”
The Trident is a submarine-launched ballistic missile equipped with multiple independently targetable reentry vehicles, or MIRVs. With a payload of up to fourteen reentry vehicles, each carrying a 362-pound thermonuclear warhead with a yield of 100 kilotons, a single Trident has roughly seventy times the destructive power of the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki on August 9, 1945.
Not only is he willing to use nuclear weapons and on the Middle East but read that last sentence---"a single Trident (missile) has roughly seventy times the destructive power of the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki..."
Insane. Truly insane.
More:
Not to be done there and certainly not to be outdone, The Donald also thinks it a good idea to have our military, our American soldiers, in the war theater, too:
So not only does he think he can rather willy-nilly bring about the use of nuclear warheads on the Middle East, on the planet, but that American soldiers should also be "on the ground" there, too, if---heaven forbid---he should be elected president.
To whom does any of this, any of it, make any sense?
Friday, September 4, 2015
Great Uses of Great Old Songs for Terrific TV and Movies, Part III
I feel certain this was a big hit by a local band out of Cleveland but it worked.
If Restaurants In America Were Run Like Our Hospitals
Further examples of what's wrong with our so-sick health care system in America.
Thursday, September 3, 2015
Great Uses of Great Old Songs for Terrific TV and Movies, Part II
Drew Carey knocked it out of the park.
The Sick, Sorry, Even Immoral and Unconscionable State of Health Care in America
Examples of this sick system we call health care in America.
Example 1:
I have a friend who hurt himself, rather badly, at work, while working. He hurt his back.
He is off work now, both recuperating and waiting for the repair on his back that is required.
In the meantime, to make things worse, he is having to fight his employer--and probably the insurance company---to have workmen's compensation cover his injury.
What he's going through:
"For those of you that have never dealt with workman's comp.....I pray you never have to. For those that have, you know my anger and frustration of waiting for everything, as it needs approvals...you get one thing behind you and the next step takes an eternity to proceed to the next step in care of your injury.... What should take a matter of days to diagnosis, make preparations for and do repairs is still in the preparation stage and final repair--surgery--doesn't even have a scheduled date or approval from the powers that be....."
Fighting to get covered on an injury plainly sustained while at work, while working.
Nice, huh?
Example number 2:
A co-worker at my office has an allergy of some kind but she doesn't know to what she is allergic.
The allergy test, to discover that allergy?
$1000.
And not covered by her health insurance.
Naturally. Who's surprised?
So she goes without any relief. She'll keep "running into" whatever mysterious thing it is she's allergic to, all because America's health care system is tied to profit, completely unlike any other industrialized nation in the world.
Example number 3:
And then there's all the people, thousands upon thousands of Americans across the country, for whom there are fundraisers, lead by family and friends, to help people pay as much of their health care bills as possible because, for one reason or another, they can't pay the bills.
With medical insurance often lacking,
fund-raisers help the sick pay bills
There's even a website to help people do it.
Final example:
Then there's the statistic that more people go bankrupt---bankrupt---due to health care bills than any other reason or source. Check that out:
Medical bills prompt more than 60 percent of U.S. bankruptcies
We Americans have, hands down, proven, without and doubt or comparison, the most expensive health care system in the world.
And it's bankrupting us.
Worse, it's killing us:
And to those who say we Americans have the best health care system in the world? And/or that our system is helping to pay for all the progress made in the world in medicine? Note, again, that NO OTHER NATION IN THE INDUSTRIALIZED WORLD TIES HEALTH CARE TO PROFIT. No other nation does this. The United States has, by far, the most expensive health care system in the world and we are ranked 17th---SEVENTEENTH--in mortality rates. Americans die before the people in 16 other nations yet we pay more than anyone else.
We just aren't that bright.
And we could change this.
But we have to demand it. We have to demand change, the change we so sorely need.
Further Proof and Reason Why the US Needs to Cut Its Defense Budget
Our biggest military threat?
China?
This, from the New York Times, late last evening:
China Pledges to Cut 300000 Troops From Its
Massive Army
The announcement Thursday at the start of a massive parade commemorating Japan's World War II defeat 70 years ago brings the military's headcount down to about 2 million.
Once known for its human wave tactics in conflicts such as the Korean War, the PLA is increasingly focused on high-tech weaponry and more focused missions.
This, following the now-famous blast a few weeks ago:
Not to be done there, followed by this, 3 days ago:
And then there's all their other environmental problems, effecting their economy, their collective health and so many other issues:
So tell me again why the US spends so grossly, wildly, even obscenely and certainly immorally on our defense budget and military?
Wednesday, September 2, 2015
Great Uses of Great Old Songs for Terrific TV and Movies, Part I
There really was something about Mary.
Right Wing Crazy From Last Weekend
On This Day, September 2
For whatever reason, I thought September 2nd to be a day of significance. With that in mind, I thought I'd put together a few highlights from the date, down through the ages. Partly fun, partly educational, partly historical significance. Hopefully enjoy.
490 BC - Pheidippides, Greek hero and inspiration for the modern marathon, dies
44 BC - Queen Cleopatra VII of Egypt declares her son co-ruler as Ptolemy XV Caesarion.
- The first of Cicero's Philippics (oratorical attacks) on Mark Antony. He will make 14 of them over the next several months.
1649 - The Italian city of Castro is completely destroyed by the forces of Pope Innocent X, ending the Wars of Castro. (I love that. Pope Innocent)
1666 - Great Fire of London begins at 2am in Pudding Lane, 80% of London is destroyed
1732 - Pope Clement XII renews anti-Jewish laws of Rome. (Don'tcha' just love those oh-so-innocent Catholics?)
1864 - Union General William T. Sherman captures and burns Atlanta during US Civil War
1894 - Forest fires destroy Hinckley Minnesota: about 600 die (I can't even fathom that one)
1901 - VP Theodore Roosevelt advises "Speak softly & carry a big stick"
1902 - "A Trip To The Moon", the first science fiction film, by film great Georges Méliès released
1919 - Communist Party of America organizes in Chicago (It didn't really catch on. Not permanently, anyway)
1936 - 1st transatlantic round-trip air flight
1942 - German troops enter Stalingrad
1944 - During WW II, George H W Bush ejects from a burning plane
1944 - Holocaust diarist Anne Frank was sent to Auschwitz
1945 - Ho Chi Minh declares Vietnam independence from France (National Day) (Years later, Americans would learn nothing whatever from France's loss and exit from Vietnam and instead, attack the country)
1946 - Nehru forms government in India
1957 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1962 - Stan Musial's 3,516th hit moves over Tris Speaker into 2nd place
1962 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1963 - Alabama Gov George C Wallace prevents integration of Tuskegee HS
1963 - CBS & NBC expand network news from 15 to 30 minutes
1964 - Keanu Reeves birthday, Beirut, "actor"
1969 - Ralph Houk signs 3-year contract to manage Yankees at $65,000 a season (think things haven't changed a lot?)
- The first automatic teller machine (ATM) in the United States is installed in Rockville Center, New York.
1971 - Chris Evert & Jimmy Connors win their 1st US Open tennis matches (Chris who? Jimmy who?)
- Also his, Jimmy Connors', birthday, 1952
1972 - Rod Stewart's 1st #1 hit (You Wear it Well)
1973 - J. R. R. Tolkien, British author (The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings)--as if you had to ask--dies of an ulcer at 81
1982 - Rolling Stone Keith Richard's house burns down
1987 - Donald Trump takes out a full page NY Times ad lambasting Japan
1997 - Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Montreal Canada on CHOM 97.7 FM (and we still haven't gotten rid of him)
2005 - Bob Denver, American actor (Gilligan of "Gilligan's Island"), dies of complications from treatment for cancer at 70
So now, get out there, kids, and enjoy your September 2nd.
Missouri Republicans' Successful Gerrymandering
First, because I don't think enough people know what gerrymandering is, I put up a definition. Gerrymandering is to manipulate the boundaries of (an electoral constituency) so as to favor one party or class.
Political parties gerrymander districts so that their candidate(s) gets elected or re-elected to government office.
And it's wrong.
It skews voting away from the will of the people in the area, in the district, and puts more in the favor of the political party instead of the constituents.
And news out this week shows, further, that the Republicans in the Missouri statehouse in Jefferson City keep doing precisely this and it's a beauty. This from Addicting Info:
Huge Gerrymandering Fail Leaves College Student As Sole Voter In Missouri District
Businesses in Columbia, Missouri attempted to use their political pull to throw taxes at consumers instead of themselves, but a massive failure in their gerrymandering effort left them with one major roadblock: a 23-year-old college student who, on February 28, became the only registered voter in the district.
Representatives of the Business Loop 70 Community Improvement District attempted to remove every single eligible voter as part of an effort to ensure that local businesses had complete control over legislation — including a sales tax increase that would enable them to effectively force citizens to pay the businesses’ bills. The Columbia City Council voted in 5-2 in April to establish the district, which resembles a dinosaur drawn by a kindergartener (pictured below).
Representatives of the Business Loop 70 Community Improvement District attempted to remove every single eligible voter as part of an effort to ensure that local businesses had complete control over legislation — including a sales tax increase that would enable them to effectively force citizens to pay the businesses’ bills. The Columbia City Council voted in 5-2 in April to establish the district, which resembles a dinosaur drawn by a kindergartener (pictured below).
The Columbia Daily Tribune notes that, with pesky voters out of the way, the local businesses could effectively set their own laws:
This is bad enough, certainly, but I think it's been shown, time and again, across cities, states and the nation, that the worst outcomes of all this gerrymandering is when they weaken votes of Americans due to their skin color.
We need to overcome this gerrymandering, certainly, and it can be done. We need to outlaw it so we can take our state and Federal governments back, for the people.
That and overturning the Supreme Court's Citizens United ruling and ending campaign contributions so we get the big money out of our election system and government.
No small tasks, to be sure but these can be done. We have to stand up.
Tuesday, September 1, 2015
Quote of the Day -- On Fairness
On fairness. And sanity. And racism, too.
Think on this.
America has 315+ million citizens.
China?
China has 1.357 billion.
1.357 billion people. They dwarf us, by numbers.
Yet we have more people in jails and prisons than they.
To whom does this make any sense?
September Is
September Is
BY MARY JO BANG
September is work to the center
Of arguments and controversies.
Prejudgments and incomprehensions.
What will I love if not that
That was enigma?
The years of infancy, Memory says,
And there we are, with the demon
Of the art of living
Traced on the glass of some window.
In the beauty of the night of May,
Clear of moon, to the lume of a candle
There was a design like the profile
Of a landscape almost abandoned. Gone
But not gone yet. It's fascinating,
These mysterious uncovered feelings.
Enigma of an afternoon of autumn, the picture
Of which is a composition
Of the eye of my mind. Every hour
That I watch this picture
I see again still that moment.
Nevertheless the moment is an enigma
For me, in how much is inexplicable.
The physical things hide in the architecture
Of the event. The enigma of a mock-up,
Of a shadow, the spectral and eternal aspect
Of the moment. Praises to you for being
One great box of surprise,
Your head the scene of a wonderful theater
Of the most tender gray of the fog
That joins the sky to the earth.
A tangling of truth and memory,
Mythology and iconography,
I watch with the eye
Of the mind the city that accommodates
That one beautiful day that is now infinite.
It deepens. It begins. The cyclical method.
Memory is deeply not alive; it's a mock-up
And this renders it hateful. Yet, it is not a fiction,
Is a truth, indeed a sad and monstrous truth.
I was assigned to you, together we were
A beautiful and melancholic picture.
This last picture is the realization
Of the overwhelming moment
In which the acute eye perceives you as a now
That is over. A now that is fixed
In the swept past.
Mary Jo Bang, "September Is" from Elegy. Copyright © 2007 by Mary Jo Bang. Reprinted by permission of Graywolf Press.
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