Life After Corona, episode 28: There Was A Republic Went Forth
Corona: Hi!
The early warnings came apart from this Republic,
And green, and white and red and blue chimairas, and blue and red buyback, and the song of the mainstream-media,
And the November lambs, and the Orangey’s pink-faint litter, and the DC’s fools, and the golden calves,
And the noisy brood of pundits, lost in ire by the road-side,
And the serfs suspending themselves so curiously below there — and the beautiful elusive trickle-down,
And the face-plants with their disgraceful smear jobs — all became part of the Republic.
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“The early lilacs became part of this child,
And grass, and white and red morning-glories, and white and red clover, and the song of the phoebe-bird,
And the Third-month lambs, and the sow’s pink-faint litter, and the mare’s foal, and the cow’s calf,
And the noisy brood of the barn-yard, or by the mire of the pond-side,
And the fish suspending themselves so curiously below there — and the beautiful curious liquid,
And the water-plants with their graceful flat heads — all became part of him.”
— Walt Whitman
