✨ Christine Lee Smith ✨

✨ Christine Lee Smith ✨

A Manifesto for the Day After an Election

A poem by Wendell Berry: "Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front"

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Christine Lee Smith
Nov 06, 2024
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Love the quick profit, the annual raise,
    vacation with pay. Want more
    of everything ready-made. Be afraid
    to know your neighbors and to die.
    And you will have a window in your head.
    Not even your future will be a mystery
    any more. Your mind will be punched in a card
    and shut away in a little drawer.
    When they want you to buy …

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