We Are Virginia Tech...

By Nikki Giovanni (Poet & VT Professor of English)
[Published by the Daily Kos]

We are sad today
And we will be sad for quite a while
We are not moving on
We are embracing our mourning
We are Virginia Tech
We are strong enough to stand tall tearlessly
We are brave enough to bend to cry ...
And sad enough to know we must laugh again
We are Virginia Tech
We do not understand this tragedy
We know we did nothing to deserve it
But neither does a child in Africa dying of aids
Neither do the invisible children walking the night away to avoid being captured by a rogue army
Neither does the baby elephant watching his community being devastated for ivory
Neither does the Mexican child looking for fresh water
Neither does the Appalachian infant killed in the middle of night in his crib in the home its father built with his own hands being run over by a boulder because the land was destablized
No one deserves a tragedy
We are Virginia Tech
The Hokie nation embraces our own and reaches out with open heart and hands to those who offer their hearts and minds
We are strong and brave and innocent and unafraid
We are better than we think and not quite what we want to be
We are alive to the imagination and the possibility
We will continue to invent the future
Through our blood and tears
Through all this sadness
We are the Hokies
We will prevail
We will prevail
We will prevail
We are Virginia Tech

Author reading this at the VT Convocation.

See Wikipedia.org's entry on the Virginia Tech Massacre.

Homeless finally get a Free Education!

By williameon (as posted in a comment at Alternet)

They must be self taught of course
Free heat and light is a valuable commodity
To the Poor!
Sick and Famished
In America today!

Where's
The Christian Nation
When you need them?


Exxon needs more!
Gates needs more!
Splat Robber's-son,
Needs More!

While the poverty
Runs Rampant
In their idea of
The
American Nightmare.

These people live it!
Who's to blame?
We are.

For letting Corporate
Parasites
Whittle us down!
TV station by Newspaper,
By
Religion,
Inch by Inch
State by State
Country by Country

They ask for a inch
And
Take a yard!

Poor little Billionaire needs more money
To buy
And another
Empty yacht!

They have nothing better to do
With those Trust funds.
It's a write off!
Instead of paying Taxes
Like you do.
They shelter it
And use it for creating
Endless
Stink Tank
In-Proper Gander.

Sure
The Poor need prescription Drugs
Like everyone else
But they must
Beg for it first!
Ripple Please!

They where created
So we could have something!
To look down upon!
And say!
Aren?t our crappy lives great.

Compared to WHAT?????

They have nothing to run from.
They have hit bottom.
And
With them!
So have we.

Where is our morals?
Our Compassion?
Our dreams?

That is the direction?
That
We are headed in?
With
The Shrub at the helm?
DOWN
Down
down

Send everybody to Getmoe
There's plenty of money for that:
Torture Prisons
Concentration Camps!
By Halla-Co!
Three squares a day.
And plenty of
ELECTRICITY!

Surely the
Faux-est.
Corporate State
In the Universe
Can afford?
Taking care of it's own Citizens!

When tiny poorer Counties do!

Shut off
The BU__! SH__!
For one second
And
See
What?
Hits the FAN.

Let's
Find out what is really happening!
In America today!

The
Wealthiest!
Cheapest!

Hypocrites!
In the
World.