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On a Bicentennial Remembrance: February 12, 2009

Michael Ceraolo

I awoke in the late morning after a long night of reading,
the classical music station in town announcing that later
that day they would play Copland’s Lincoln Portrait accompanied
by James Earl Jones read excerpts from several of Lincoln’s speeches
(imagine: a President capable of writing his own speeches)
The public radio station in town had a celebration as well
The daily paper in town had a few days earlier reviewed
several of the never-ending procession of books on Lincoln
(why anyone would spend his or her entire life poring over
another person’s life is a subject for a different poem)
This being America no one mentioned it was also
the bicentennial of the birth of Charles Darwin,
once again missing the opportunity (during Black History Month)
to state the fact that we are all African-Americans



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