Bernie Madoff
Marfa Motel, Texas
Camp Runamuck, Rhode Island
Harney (Squaw Killer) Lake, S.D.
Evangelical “Christian Wealth” Church
I sit and look out upon all the sorrows of the world, and upon all
oppression and shame;
I hear secret convulsive sobs from young men, at anguish with
themselves, remorseful after deeds done;
I see, in low life, the mother misused by her children, dying,
neglected, gaunt, desperate;
I see the wife misused by her husband–I see the treacherous seducer
of young women;
I mark the ranklings of jealousy and unrequited love, attempted to be
hid–I see these sights on the earth;
I see the workings of battle, pestilence, tyranny–I see martyrs and
prisoners;
I observe a famine at sea–I observe the sailors casting lots who
shall be kill’d, to preserve the lives of the rest;
I observe the slights and degradations cast by arrogant persons upon
laborers, the poor, and upon negroes, and the like;
All these–All the meanness and agony without end, I sitting, look
out upon,
See, hear, and am silent. Walt Whitman
2 Comments
I see the Dallas PD made it’s way into this installment of american pastoral.
I recently came across some of those Securities notes that my grandfather had back in the 40s, 50s, now all worthless of course.