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1991 Magic Johnson announces he is HIVpositive, 1776 Post office stays in the Franklin family, 1965 Art Arfons sets landspeed record, 1861 Battle of Belmont Missouri, 1957 Gaither Report calls for more US missiles and fallout shelters, 1983 A family is brutally murdered, 1940 Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapses, 1885 Canadas transcontinental railway completed, 1940 Tacoma Bridge collapses, 1944 FDR reelected a record third time, 1989 Two African American firsts in politics, 1980 King of Cool Steve McQueen dies, 1913 French novelist Albert Camus is born, 1943 Singersongwriter Joni Mitchell is born, 1916 Jeannette Rankin becomes first US congresswoman, 1944 FDR wins unprecedented fourth term, 1991 Magic Johnson announces he has HIV, 1964 US intelligence asserts numbers of North Vietnamese in South Vietnam growing, 1966 McNamara shouted down at Harvard speech, 1972 Nixon reelected president, 1914 First issue of The New Republic published, 1944 Soviet master spy is hanged by the Japanese,

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O Mother, How Have You Become?

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O Mother, how have you become?

Why is it I sense your forests numb?

Where are the trees which cooled your body?

These towers of cement make you look so shoddy.

O Mother, how have you become?

Is this because of human infection?

Where are the others who lived here before?

Rhinos, tigers, deer and more?

O Mother, how have you become?

Your green spots, why are there none?

These yellow and grey patches, why?

Look at your condition, you make me cry!

O Mother, how have you become?

Who was once so happy, why is she so glum?

Hear this noise, and look at the smoke,

Where are the morning fog and the frog’s croak?

O Mother, how have you become?

Where are the trees of apple, orange and plum?

The humans have placed you on a hospital bed,

How long will it be, before you are dead?

O Mother, how have you become?

You are not what you used to be.

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