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enjoy this writing from Janet Kuypers by clicking the title or the cover from the cc&d free 2017 PDF file chapbook: Erasure Poems of new 2017 erasure poems (poems created by “erasing” parts of other known writings or speeches from others) performed live 4/1/17 in an Austin Texas show for National Poetry Month, read to sounds of a train moving down the tracks |
 
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This writing was accepted for publication in the 108 page perfect-bound ISSN#/ISBN# issue/book “Forbidden” cc&d, v276 (the October 2017 issue) Order this as a 6"x9" paperback book:  |
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corner stone for slavery Janet Kuypers 3/12/17 These are selected words from the Corner Stone Speech, an oration by Confederate Vice President Alexander Stephens in Savannah, Georgia March 21, 1861. This would split. conjecture with the great truth may be doubted. prevailing formation of the old were the violation of the laws of nature; socially, morally, politically. It was an evil. Those ideas were fundamentally wrong rested upon the assumption of equality. This was an error a sandy foundation, it fell when the storm came. Our laid corner stone, the great truth is not equal to the natural and normal. this great physical, philosophical, and moral truth, It has been so amongst us. The errors of the past still cling with a zeal above knowledge, from the mind of insanity. conclusions are right if premises were. the equal, warring against principle founded in nature, should, ultimately, succeed, and would ultimately fail. That impossible war against a principle was warring against principle. equal made unequal. secure peace, show your ability, maintain your rights. Never allow slavery to the soil. clamor against getting or letting go. fight this strange paradox There seems to be but one rational solution, notwithstanding humanity, give up the benefits. labor to the necessary they come from nature this seceding question, the desire peace simply a recognition of our independence |
