Vantage Point | Culture and Politics
by Don Hynes
"No man is prejudiced in favor of a thing, knowing it to be wrong. He is attached to it on the belief of its being right; and when he sees it is not so, the prejudice will be gone." - Tom Paine

March 28, 2004  

Theme Park

It’s an old theme
but never gets tired
or worn from use;
out in space
a metal capsule
sends back pictures of Mars
but just walk down the street
and you’ll see a host of faces
hungry for the slightest attention.
What will we tell them
on Jupiter or Venus?
Perhaps they’re waiting
for what we’ve learned
here, on the planet
where forgiveness
is the lesson.

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