Thursday, June 11, 2009

POEM - The Great Majority

the great majority
will never hit a home run
in a World Series game

discover the cure for cancer

write a symphony

headline a Broadway play

rape somebody

steal from a blind man

kill out of anger

the great majority
will go on year in and year out
doing unspectacular things

like

reading to their children
cooking meals
sweeping floors
planting roses
donating blood

the great majority
will pass away unnoticed
by the great minority
who get all the
attention

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