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*Poem: Washington D.C. (The District)*
I love it
In this square
of columns and obelisks…
and monuments designed
to align
with constellations:
To symbolize our protection.
Serius. Virgo. Sun.
Washington,
Here where Virginia and Maryland meet, and greet.
Streets and corner-stones laid
In the glorious shapes
of Pentagrams and Christian crosses
And cubes and pyramids,
And the Blazing Star set on a ley line,
And the temple in the eye.
Homes, made
of red-brick, and granite
Stones.
Laus Deo!
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― The Pursuit of Happiness: A Book of Poems Honoring Our American Values
― The Pursuit of Happiness: A Book of Poems Honoring Our American Values
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And shall we at last become the victims of our own abominable lust of gain? Forbid it, Heaven." Washington himself could be a hard driving businessman, yet he found the rapacity of many vendors unconscionable. As he told George Mason, he thought it the intent of the speculators, various tribes of money makers and stock jobbers of all denominations, to continue the war for their own private emolument, without considering that their avarice and thirst for gain must plunge everything in one common
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