Foreclosure and seven months ago
Our banks and lending institutions
Brought forth upon our neighborhoods
A new concept in home ownership
And mortgages each conceived
In wealth and dedicated
To the proposition that all loans
Are not created equal
Now we are engaged
In a great political war
Testing whether those who borrow
Can long endure or suffer
The consequences of poor
Congressional leadership
It is all together fitting
And proper that all political parties
Should bear this burden
But in a larger sense
We must dedicate ourselves
To those home owners, living and dead,
Who have bravely consecrated their lives
To the unfinished work which
They have so nobly endured
That from their hope
We take renewed devotion
And do hereby resolve
That this battleground
Of Wall Street
Shall have a new birth
Of credit and that these
Resolutions will lessen
The burden of the people,
By the people, for the people,
Who shall not foreclose
In vain within their neighborhoods
Ted Goodell
September 29, 2008
Well thought, contemporary. poem, using The Gettysburg Address as the platform.
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