January 5, 2004
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What is nation but a notion to assign a place of relevance or status that invokes us in yearning for one voice regardless of race, class gender a status so nonexistent as to render us impartial and negligible to the will of one group or person or not at all -- so then to be a nation div- ided is to acknowledge the special interests that endeavor to define for us our needs and wants that by refusing we become strengthened by the will of truth justice and the love of man not country. · · · · · ·
Vanessa Raney is a graduate student in History at Claremont Graduate University. Her poetry has recently appeared in American Western Magazine (online), Quirk, Asphyxia Digest, WireTap Magazine (online), The Bayou Review, and The Thing Itself. Do you wish to share your opinion? We invite your comments. E-mail the Editor. Please include your full name, address and phone number. If we publish your opinion we will only include your name, city, state, and country. Please, feel free to insert a link to this work on your Web site or to disseminate its URL on your favorite lists, quoting the first paragraph or providing a summary. However, please DO NOT steal, scavenge or repost this work without the expressed written authorization of Swans. This material is copyrighted, © Vanessa Raney 2003. All rights reserved. No part of this material may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher. |
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