I very much liked the inaugural poem by Elizabeth Alexander.It was so simple and real and effective at describing the small things in ordinary lives that make for big changes...
Someone is stitching up a hem, darning a hole in a uniform, patching a tire, repairing the things in need of repair.
Someone is trying to make music somewhere with a pair of wooden spoons on an oil drum with cello, boom box, harmonica, voice.
A woman and her son wait for the bus.
A farmer considers the changing sky; A teacher says, "Take out your pencils. Begin."
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I loved that poem too, as well as her recitation of it.
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