Friday, January 3, 2003

Government Comments

Rating: 2.8

The Government -- I heard about the Government and
I went out to find it. I said I would look closely at
it when I saw it.
Then I saw a policeman dragging a drunken man to
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Raymond Farrell 08 January 2016

Very poignant even today and people still run out and vote thinking there is a dime's worth of difference between the candidates when the truth is the whole system is now a complete failure.

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Curtis Johnson 25 September 2015

If all men, women, boys, and girls knew the meaning of Government as did Mr. Sandburg, what a wonderful world this would be. We would hear less of 'the government this and the government that'. The word 'They' would evolve into a personal pronoun like Paul or Mary or John or even Peggy. My Government would be known by me, not at the court house, police station, or the social security office, but he/she would be my neighbor next door trying to cut his lawn just like me.

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Brian Jani 19 June 2014

Mr sandburg, i wonder why this poem has no comment yet because it is a masterpieces

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