A Poem For Today

June 21st, 2011

It's great to work for nothing. Right? It's wonderful to hurt and watch your children not have enough. Right? You're lucky to struggle with buying food... or medicine. Right? It's great... once you get in.

It's Great When You Get In 

by Eugene O'Neill

"They told me the water was lovely,
That I ought to go for a swim,
The air was maybe a trifle cool,
"You won't mind it when you get in"
So I journeyed cheerfully beach-ward,
And nobody put me wise,
But everyone boosted my courage
With an earful of jovial lies.