Suffering Democracy

The poem with fiddle music that has been included by Mark Rauterkus on emails and CDs. Ken played in Pittsburgh.
==by Ken Waldman==
Instead of a gun, or knife,
or pill, or drink. Or punching
the wall, the dog, screaming
at kids. Or holding
too many pains too deep --
brutal parents, cruel lovers,
bad bosses, debts, illnesses,
dying friends, extinct creatures,
absent God, near-ruined planet.
First, grip a pen, and write.
Then, pick a place, and plant.
Then, be patient, and let grow.
Then, enter a small booth,
pull around the blue curtain,
kiss that ballot, and vote.
==Photo from Ken's Pittsburgh Concert ==
http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/163/7445/320/DSC01317.jpg
Mark Rauterkus and Ken Waldman in 2005.
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