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AMERICAN HISTORY 101
(Those
who cannot remember the past
are condemned to repeat it. - G. Santayana)
It’s not that
we have no history. We have,
could we but remember it, and almost
we can, through the rant and rave
of advertising, news, and laffs. Like lost
keys—when did we have them last in hand—
on the table, at work, at the bank?
Salt water, moon-drawn, lapping the sand
is no more constant than the pull to think,
each generation back to the ones before,
to movements full of joys and freedom’s hope—
those memories dispersed leave an ancient fear:
Were we complicit in our history’s rape?
Yet we’re not born suborned: we’ll still engage,
still rebel, make history leap from the page.
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