On this day :
1980 John Lennon shot, 1775 Americans begin siege of Quebec, 1942 Autofactory architect Albert Kahn dies, 1863 Lincoln issues Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction, 1949 Chinese Nationalists move capital to Taiwan, 1980 John Lennon is murdered, 1881 Theater fire kills hundreds in Vienna, 1542 Mary Queen of Scots born, 1987 Superpowers agree to reduce nuclear arsenals, 1993 NAFTA signed into law, 1982 Meryl Streep stars in Sophies Choice, 1894 James Thurber is born, 1980 John Lennon is assassinated in New York City, 1941 Jeanette Rankin casts sole vote against WWII, 1941 Roosevelt asks Congress to declare war on Japan, 1940 Bears beat Redskins 730 in NFL Championship game, 1965 Operation Tiger Hound launched, 1966 North Vietnam rejects Johnsons prisoner exchange proposal, 1969 Nixon declares Vietnam War is ending, 1914 The Battle of the Falkland Islands, 1941 The United States declares war on Japan,

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True Politics

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We often wonder,


What 'Politics' implies?


Is it what we sense around?


Or is it much more, or less?

 

Crises gibe,


Vaults ring,


Coins cling,


Eagles aviate soaring heights,


Demented vultures don't crave any more,


And people gloss their huts' bright,


Politics thus fares.

 

Undue deposits gratify Banks,


Loans amass, common men all frail,


Vehicles pass cursorily,
Illustrative ones drop in regularly and chaffer,


'Formidably decrepit' promises foretell a reign,


All seasons pass, yielding to the next,


Not a devolution among equals anyways,


'DEBILITIES forever remain DEBILITIES',


Unless we initiate, to tend to ourselves.

 

I know of him,


I know of her,


I know of my neighbour,


I know of his aunt,


But, don't ask me of my home-coz I'll fail,


I know none of me, or of my Mom and Dad,


But I've cognized the trends well, can discern a nation,


Mostly blind, and crudely dumb,


Still shall I pass for an ample path leader,


Uncloaked, beneficial subterfuge.

 

So what's the true one?


What's true revolution?


I suppose-It's the way how,


We attain a living for ourselves!


It's the way how you live up to-


Your allegiances, and burnish,


Your own homes bright!

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