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Posted on 7/1/2022 at 21:28:25 by Dick Raymond (18)
Classmates: For some reason, I hope it is not owing to ill health, our Webmaster no longer posts my monthly Pomes on the Class website. So, for those who may have been pining to read the latest, see below:
July 2022 Pome
OUR NATIONAL HOLIDAZE
A Remark
"President Joe Biden on Thursday signed a bill establishing Juneteenth, the date commemorating the end of slavery in the United States, as a federal holiday. Biden, in what he called “one of the greatest honors” of his presidency, signed the bill two days before Juneteenth itself, which is on June 19 each year." -- News item
In considering the matter of matter of Federal paid
holidays, and other deservances,
Perhaps we should examine the whole context, as to
which individuals or occasions ought to be honored by
such observances.
After all, we taxpayers are beginning to note with
concern how many days throughout the year are
celebrated by public servants going idle,
Yet receiving full pay and allowances, while freed from
the yoke and the bridle.
And shall we not point out that although some may be
justified in deference to our long and distinguished
history,
The reasons for inclusion or eschewal of several others
appear to be a mystery.
At this date, as for some years past, the reins of
government rest in the hands of persons of
overwhelming liberality,
Whose inclinations seldom involve frugality.
Nor--one may murmur with facial expressions best
described as archly--
Lacking in enough milk of human kindness to curdle even
Miss Muffet, either wholly or parshly.
Juneteenth is but the latest,
And not especially the greatest.
Suppose we begin by removing from the halls honored by
politically abhorrent statuary--
Such as those two presidents whose birthdates
inconveniently occur in February,
Let us also deep-six Columbus, who made landfall in the
Bahamas on the fifteenth of October,
And promptly began to enslave the indigenous people,
here we can celebrate by remaining sober.
Independence Day on July Fourth belongs only to the
privileged class,
So for the poor downtrodden proletariat they may quite
understandably ignore it, or perhaps arise in revolt
en masse.
Memorial Day--once recognized on May 30, but now just
another Monday--originated as Yankees gloating for
their victory over honest hard-working landholders in
the South--
The memory of which leaves a bitter taste in every
Dixie mouth.
And as for Christmas! How can one consider an event so
blatantly Christian
As anything but an insult to Allah, or Yahweh, or
devout fire-worshipers, it gives them serious
indigestion.
So let's have enough of this mockery and pretense of
celebration,
And behave just for a while as citizens of a great and
moral nation.
6-20-22
Replies:
- Re(1): (no subject) - By Bill Hoover 11th 7/2/2022 at 17:18:32
- Re(1): (no subject) - By Mike Myers, 9th 7/2/2022 at 00:23:58
- Re(1): (no subject) - By Mike Myers, 9th 7/2/2022 at 00:10:31
- holidays et al - By Ed Tipshus 7/2/2022 at 00:01:37
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