Thoughts of Greenwich

I feel like Bob Dylan this week...
                - maybe I should move and perform
                  in Greenwich Village.
        People would really think me a liberal then.

    What of it?
          Though I am not, I find enough of the tenets
              of their party perfectly reasonable.

    Why shouldn't the poor be helped?
          Why shouldn't trees be conserved?

Imagine the stories found in one person's life
      ...is not a tree's story ten times longer?

    Yet contrarily, I find many conservative beliefs equally reasonable.
          - for instance, if a government gave a person everything he
              needed to survive, would he ever become anything?

Is it not through hardships, hunger, and perseverance that
        a person's real beauty grow?

But were the slums not founded first by a community's
      purposeful ignorance of its needy & poor?

Yet the government seeks but to give a man a fish...
      and the man might even know that if he were to learn to fish,
          he might find himself with far less free time than he
      feels comfortable with.

The answer lies not in any one party... but in the belief and desire
          to do right.
                                - end -

        - February 18, 2006