"Ozzy"

watched the State of the Union Address to the United States Congress. He hopes his friends in other countries can understand that the compendium of lies he heard tonight does not represent what the majority of his country's citizens think, or, in fact who we are. He remembers the words of the poet, T.S. Eliot, writing in "The Hollow Men;"

 

"Here we go round the prickly pear

Prickly pear prickly pear

Here we go round the prickly pear

At five o'clock in the morning.

 

Between the idea

And the reality

Between the motion

And the act

Falls the Shadow"

 

But "Ozzy" knows that, if those of us who realize that what we heard tonight reflects nothing short of a chauvinistic ignorance of history, culture, and decency, don't work to find sunlight in the shadow, we all should, as the saying, goes, "Be very afraid."

 

Photo by Frank.

 

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