"He is on television every night smiling and bragging about how birds with broken wings can’t fly. He talks about how they need to be punished. Then he starts blaming them for everything that’s wrong."
To which I answer by quoting the Beatles:
"Blackbird singing in the dead of night/take these broken wings and learn to fly/all your life/you were only waiting for this moment to arrive."
Variations of "oh, you're reading again? you must think you're smart?"; "you expect too much" (re going to college, grad schools)... no opportunities missed to mock or belittle others while celebrating their own willful ignorance.
Thank you for writing this (among so many other wonderful things that you've written)
Yeah, no kidding. The constant pressure from people to stop educating yourself is something that's really disgusting in the USA. Thanks for the comment!
"He is on television every night smiling and bragging about how birds with broken wings can’t fly. He talks about how they need to be punished. Then he starts blaming them for everything that’s wrong."
To which I answer by quoting the Beatles:
"Blackbird singing in the dead of night/take these broken wings and learn to fly/all your life/you were only waiting for this moment to arrive."
Nice. That's a lovely quote!
It matches what you were saying about birds with broken wings- it provides the opposite message to what the TV man is saying.
You are a poet!😊
Thanks Laurie!
Some mornings your writing is the only sane thing in my inbox.
Thank you.
That's very nice of you to say! Thank you Diane!
I've also lived through and survived this.
And fled.
Variations of "oh, you're reading again? you must think you're smart?"; "you expect too much" (re going to college, grad schools)... no opportunities missed to mock or belittle others while celebrating their own willful ignorance.
Thank you for writing this (among so many other wonderful things that you've written)
Yeah, no kidding. The constant pressure from people to stop educating yourself is something that's really disgusting in the USA. Thanks for the comment!