Saturday, May 26, 2012

A Moment's Change

Welcome to Memorial Day weekend and the official beginning of summer (for anyone still near the academic arenas).

In memoriam of those lost and of those who will spend time this weekend to honor them, I've taken the first stanza from "The End and the Beginning" from The Poetry Foundation.  (The remainder of the poem can be accessed via the title link.)
The End and the Beginning
    by WISŁAWA SZYMBORSKA
After every war
someone has to clean up.
Things won’t
straighten themselves up, after all.

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