Howard Nemerov's "Fourth Of July" (1 Viewer)

[rockaction]

This might be better suited for the PSF, but I wanted to share with you all a poem that really has meant something to me over the years.

I hope you all enjoy it and wish you all a Happy Independence Day.

http://www.algonquinstable.net/viewtopic.php?p=15503

 

[otb_lifer]

nice to see teh Googlez paying homage to our nation's birthday with some facacta animated baseball game featuring popcorn, apple pie, mustard, ketchup, etc - no sight of the flag or any other trappings that would symbolize just what the #### this day is all about ... absolutely bereft of anything even remotely sane. 

gotdamn disgrace. 

 

[Ilov80s]

nice to see teh Googlez paying homage to our nation's birthday with some facacta animated baseball game featuring popcorn, apple pie, mustard, ketchup, etc - no sight of the flag or any other trappings that would symbolize just what the #### this day is all about ... absolutely bereft of anything even remotely sane. 

gotdamn disgrace. 

Pathetic. Degenerate. Scum. I was planning on grilling up some burgers and drinking beers with my friends all day, swimming in the lake and then watching some fireworks but honestly this has ruined my mood. 

 

[otb_lifer]

i mean, ferchrissakes, for the USWNT Women's World Cup matches they would have the Statue of Liberty animated as a footy feline, draped in the flag - but for today we get ####### popcorn pitching to a slice of apple pie? 

full disclosure - i did smack a coupla dingers, the popcorn hurler is very hittable ... didn't hang around long enough for the relief picher, but best edumicated guess would be a potato chip 

 

[otb_lifer]

Pathetic. Degenerate. Scum. I was planning on grilling up some burgers and drinking beers with my friends all day, swimming in the lake and then watching some fireworks but honestly this has ruined my mood. 

meh ... c'mon, they gotta discern the day with zomething  symbolic.  it's Grade-A stoopit. 

 

[Ilov80s]

meh ... c'mon, they gotta discern the day with zomething  symbolic.  it's Grade-A stoopit. 

You are right, I’m over it. The beer, burgers, swimming, chemical explosives are all back on!!!

 

[rockaction]

Geez, guys, it's just a poem about trading security for liberty...

 

[Ilov80s]

Geez, guys, it's just a poem about trading security for liberty...

I like the poem btw