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The Daily Tar Heel/Friday, January 22, 1993
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‘On the Pulse Of Morning’
Here is a complete transcript of the poem
“On the Pulse of Morning,” which Wake For
est University professor and poet Maya
Angelou wrote for President Clinton’s inaugu
ration:
A Rock, A River, A Tree
Hosts to species long since departed,
Marked the mastodon.
The dinosaur, who left dry tokens
Of their sojourn here
On our planet floor,
Any broad alarm of their hastening doom
Is lost in the gloom of dust and ages.
But today, the Rock cries out to us, clearly,
forcefully,
Come, you may stand upon my
Back an 4 face your distant destiny,
But seek no haven in my shadow.
I will give you no hiding place down here.
You, created only a little lower than
The angels, have crouched too long in
The bruising darkness,
Have lain too long
Face down in ignorance.
Your mouths spilling words
Armed for slaughter.
The Rock cries out to us today, you may
stand upon me,
But do not hide your face.
Across the wall of the world,
A river sings a beautiful song,
It says, come, rest here by my side.
Each of you a bordered country,
Delicate and strangely made, proud,
Yet thrusting perpetually under seige.
Your armed struggles for profit
Have left collars of waste upon
My shore, currents of debris upon my breast.
Yet, today I call you to my riverside,
If you will study war no more. Come,
Clad in peace and I will sing the songs
The Creator gave to me when I and die
Tree and the Rock were one.
Before cynicism was a bloody sear across
your
Brow and when you yet knew you still
Knew nothing.
The River sang and sings on.
There is a true yearning to respond to
The singing River and the wise Rock.
So say the Asian, the Hispanic, the Jew,
The African, the Native American, the Sioux
The Catholic, the Muslim, the French, the
Greek,
The Irish, the Rabbi, the Priest, the Sheikh,
The Gay, the Straight, the Preacher,
The Privileged, the Homeless, the Teacher,
They all hear
The speaking of the Tree.
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They hear the first and last of every Tree
Speaks to humankind today. Come to me,
here beside the River.
Plant yourself beside the River.
Each of you, descendent of some passed
On traveler, has been paid for.
You, who gave me my first name, you
Pawnee, Apache, Seneca, you
Cherokee Nation, who rested with me, then
Forced on bloody feet, left me to the employ
ment of
Other seekers desperate for gain,
Starving for gold.
You, the Turk, the Arab, the Swede, the
German, the Eskimo, the Scot...
You the Ashanti, the Yoruba, the Kru, bought
Sold, stolen, arriving on a nightmare
Praying for a dream.
Here, root yourselves beside me.
I am that Tree planted by the River,
Which will not be moved.
I, the Rock, I the River, I the Tree
lam yours your Passages have been paid.
Lift up your faces, you have a piercing need
For this bright morning dawning for you.
History, despite its wrenching pain,
Cannot be unlived, and if faced
With courage, need not be lived again.
Lift up your ears upon
This day breaking for you.
Give birth again
To the dream.
Women, children, men,
Take it into the palms of your hands.
Mold it into the shape of your most
Private need. Sculpt it into
The image of your most public self.
Lift up your hearts
Each new hour holds new chances
For new beginnings.
Do not be wedded forever
To fear, yoked eternally
To brutishness.
The horizon leans forward,
Offering you space to place new steps of
change.
Here, on the pulse of this fine day
You may have the courage
To look up and out and upon me, the
Rock, the River, the Tree, your country.
No less to Midas than the mendicant.
No less to you now than the mastodon then.
Here on the pulse of this new day
You may have the grace to look up and out
And into your sister’s eyes and into
Your brother’s face, your country
And say simply
Very simply
With hope
Good morning.
L. ■
Gratuitous flannel and new Rules of Order
1 had just returned home from looking
up the word “drek” at the library
when I realized that I was locked out
of my house. I made those upper-leg
patting motions several times looking
for my keys, then emptied the contents
of my pockets onto the lawn, a process
which took 20 minutes and created a
patch on the lawn where grass will now
no longer grow.
My keys nowhere to be found, I had
no choice but to attempt to break into
my house. I have long held the opinion
that nothing is worth doing unless it is
done to one’s fullest capabilities. “Do it
right or don’t do it at all,” my orthodon
tist used to say, just before he fitted me
with some experimental cardboard
braces.
Any jerk can jimmy a door or win
dow open, but I immediately decided it
should be done right and proceeded to
rent a big black van and about S9OO
worth of sophisticated surveillance
equipment. I cased the joint for two
days, learning the routines of my room
mates and deciding on the optimum
time to strike.
When the time arrived, I cut the phone
lines and crawled into the basement
through an open window. I pumped a
potent yet mostly harmless tranquilizer
gas into the home through the system of
heating ducts, rendering my roommates
unconscious for at least an hour. I then
donned a gas mask and, with the help of
several hired ruffians, proceeded to
empty the house of valuables, load them
in the van, drive out to an abandoned
warehouse on the outskirts of town,
forge new serial numbers on the more
expensive ones and sell them on the
black market.
I then returned home, feeling good
about a job well done.
If there’s one thing my high school
guidance counselor was right about, it’s
that you have lots of time to think in
prison. Most of my thinking, interest
ingly, revolved around what is referred
to as the “Grunge Movement.”
The National Heritage Dictionary,
XVm edition, defines “grunge” as “1.
adj. The state of being urchinlike; 2. n.
A system of aesthetics and ideas involv
ing a rugged, savvy, and grassroots de
meanor; 3. (proper name) Synthetic
Scandal-cluttered Oval
Office needs cleaning
To the editor:
On Wednesday in Washington, D.C.,
America celebrates the passing of an
era that has been marred in falsehood.
Dishonesty best characterizes the
failed four-year term of George Herbert
Walker Bush. Although Bill Clinton
already has launched anew cycle of
dishonesty beginning with Haiti, it will
be difficult for the new president to
outdo the significant accomplishments
of his predecessor.
The scandals include the pre-Persian
Gulf War diversion of $5 billion in loan
guarantees to the terrorist state of Iraq
and Bush’s certain knowledge of the
shipment of arms to Iran via Israel.
. Bush’s constant duplicity on what he
knew of Iran-Contra and Iraqgate left
news commentators with a rich diet.
Well, media hound dogs, the party’s
over. But in his kindness, Bush dis
pensed anew bone with his last curtain
call —a poorly executed sleight-of
hand trick to hide his obvious Iran-
Contra fingerprints.
Last Saturday, the White House made
public Bush’s extraordinary taped di
ary (printed in the January 16 edition of
The New York Times), which miracu
lously absolved the then-vice president
from wrongdoing in the illegal arms
for-hostages deal.
Bush’s January 1, 1987, entry says,
“I’m not trying to jump sideways on
this, but I think it is important to have
the facts. And the facts are that the Vice
President is not in the decision-making
loop.”
He was referring to 1985 and 1986,
when key decisions were made to carry
out the deal by top Reagan Administra
tion players, such as national security
aide John Poindexter, Defense Secre
tary Caspar Weinberger and Secretary
of State George Schultz.
Bush ’ s carefully worded release con
tradicts Poindexter’s, Schultz’s and
Weinberger’s paper trail that clearly
put Bush inside that loop.
With the wall of evidence against
him, Bush simply has no shred of cred
Roman god of
shoe soles, also
the protector
against occa
sional itching;
composed of at
tributes of the
Greek god
Antites, god of
small bits of
rope, and the
Egyptian
Imman-Re, the
lord of standing
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Jason
Torchinskyfj
Turn Your Head
and Cough if
pools of Nile water.” Webster’s, how
ever, defines the word with a sugges
tion to refer to the National Heritage
Dictionary. Taking these bits of aca
demic information provides us with a
start that leads absolutely nowhere, and
it is far more effective to simply con
sider grunge to be the Seattle-based,
Nirvana and Pearl Jam-listening phe
nomenon that involves lots of flannel.
I have been thinking about the con
cept of grunge because of all of the
attention it has been receiving in the
media lately. Vogue, Details, Cosmo
politan and no doubt Omni have all
done large stories on grunge, and all
have in common the one thing that set
my mind onto this tack in the first place:
they all refer to it as the “Grunge Move
ment.”
Now, I have been around what they
call the “Grunge Movement” for quite
some time now, and I myself own sev
eral flannel shirts and even a work jacket
with an embroidered company logo on
one breast, yet I never realized that it
was an actual movement!
How exciting! A movement, like the
Irish Republican Army, or the Green
Movement, or the Whigs! Though I
have yet to actually see any evidence of
some kind of actual organization for
members of the grunge, I nevertheless
wish to officially join and, if I may,
present these few ideas for the organi
zation and implementation of the move
ment:
For the grunge movement to thrive, a
basic structure must be established. I
have researched all of the major move
ments and organizations throughout
history, and I have found two extremely
powerful movements with elements that,
READERS' FORUM
ibility regarding his culpability in the
affair.
Nothing will erase the tarnish of what
syndicated columnist Anthony Lewis
has called “the worst government scan
dal in years, a crude violation of the
Constitution that damaged the national
interest.”
Pity should be reserved for the de
serving. Bush will continue to reap
and rightly so the condemnation he
brought upon himself.
RUDY BRUEGGEMANN
Graduate
Journalism
Distilling MLK s true
message from mythology
To the editor:
The movie “Malcolm X” oddly
kindled my interest in Martin Luther
King Jr. I began studying why King had
such a different view on how to conquer
the evils of segregation and racism. I
would encourage those interested in the
subject to read King’s 1963 collection
of sermons, “Strength to Love.” His
original message tends to get lost in
modem legend.
The key to King’s message was his
devout faith in Jesus Christ. Yes, he
frequently referred to Gandhi, but only
in his belief that Gandhi’s method was
the same preached by Christ and the
early Christians as they were perse
cuted by the Romans. King contended
that true peace could only come from a
relationship with God that turned a heart
filled with hate and vengeance into a
heart that could even love and forgive
the white man lynching you. No earthly
philosophy or legislation could truly
accomplish this.
Yet he also saw in the Biblical mes
sage the call to never accept passively
the evils in the “way things are,” but to
stand up steadfastly and peacefully for
justice. His theology was definitely not
the soft “you’re OK, I’m OK” message
that was being preached during the ’ 60s.
He was liberal on bringing justice and
equality but conservative when it came
to ethics and morality (even beyond the
race issue). He would have been ap
when properly combined, would pro
vide the grange movement with the
strong type of structure it requires: the
4-H clubs and the Samurai warriors of
feudal Japan.
The combination of these two ide
ologies would give the grange move
ment a strong sense of family, commu
nity involvement and animal-husbandry
knowledge along with a fanatical devo
tion to the organization, where leader
ship can be passed only through blood
lines or military coups.
Also, if grange is to be a movement,
a regular time and place to meet is
needed. I think the Freemason lodge on
Franklin, the brick one sort of near El
Rodeo, should work nicely. We’ll de
cide on regular meeting times after our
organizational meeting, oh, next Tues
day. At this meeting I think it would
also be a good time to go over the
group’s secret handshake (a fist to the
gut) and wave (an extended middle fin
ger).
The grunge movement could earn
money for its programs by interpreting
Nirvana lyrics, or by holding a bake
sale, or holding seminars on the care
and maintenance of sock hats, or extor
tion or almost anything! The bounds are
limitless!
We could have interactions with other
local groups as well, such as a mixer
with the Daughters of the American
Revolution, or, more fun, an all-out
chains and knives ramble with the local
chapter of Mensa. It’ll be great! All of
us members of the grunge movement,
working together, kicking the hell out
of brainiac Mensa goofs as a team, all of
us cheering as the torn pages of
“Finnegan’s Wake” and bits of Rubik’s
cubes and brain-teaser books come rain
ing to the ground. Excuse me, I’m tear
ing up. Okay.
Now that the popular press has rec
ognized grunge as a movement, nothing
can stop us from actually becoming
one! The hard part is behind us! Let’s
grab our copies of “Slacker” and put on
our work boots and take to the streets!
Members of the Grange Movement, I
salute you! Solidarity.
Jason Torchinsky is a senior art his
tory major from Greensboro.
palled at the Church’s modem fear of
calling sin “sin” because it might offend
someone. In this, he was close to
Malcolm’s strict Islamic faith, but Mus
lims seem to admire Jesus until it comes
to turning the other cheek.
The Bible was the true foundation of
Martin’s message, and he was not afraid
to buck the system or to stand against
calls for violent change. He was first a
Christian. His message transcended race
and politics it cut to the heart and
soul of every human being.
CHRIS ANDREWS
Graduate
Business
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