Howard Zinn Is Dead
Maybe it was in some movie maybe it
was in a dream but I seem to remember
Howard Zinn as tour guide on a double-decker
bus crusing our country our world speaking
on how "Columbus was met by Arawah
men and women, naked, tawny, full of wonder...
just look, will you, at what happened..."
"Down this way we have," he'd tell us, "To the
Empire and its people... To Teddy Roosevelt
welcoming any war any war at all anywhere"
Then we'd continue through "CarterReaganBush
that consensus protecting corporate interests
in any place in any where at all time any old
right-wing tyranny abroad..." And
just when the prospect for our times of turmoil
also seemed an insurmountable struggle... Howard
Zinn, microphone in hand beamed through
the tour bus's P.A. "There's still inspiration,
I'm still inspired!"
Gerald S.
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