When information which properly belongs to the public is systematically withheld by those in power, the people soon become ignorant of their own affairs, distrustful of those who manage them, and—eventually—incapable of determining their own destinies.
—Richard M. Nixon
Knot
David Lehman selected my poem "Knot" as a winner of this week's
Next Line, Please challenge at
The American Scholar site. I was pretty happy with the way this one came out, so I'm glad to see that others liked it too!
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