Dear Walt,
I understand the poet Michael Palmer wrote a letter to you a couple years ago* in which he informed you of our failure to achieve the vision you penned 120 years ago in your poem, "America:"
Centre of equal daughters, equal sons,
All, all alike endear’d, grown, ungrown, young or old,
Strong, ample, fair, enduring, capable, rich,
Perennial with the Earth, with Freedom, Law and Love,
A grand, sane, towering, seated Mother,
Chair’d in the adamant of Time.
As a reminder, Walt, this is how Mr. Palmer explained our dilemma to you in his missive:
I don’t know whether you keep abreast of the news, Walt, but it is not good. The current administration, a dungheap of pious hypocrites and liars, has used the pretext of the war against terror to dismantle the founding principles and values of the republic and to abrogate international treaties.
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