Literary Advice Written The Day After JFK's Inauguration

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Ask not what 

words you can write

for your country,

ask what words

should never be written

©©©

 

FRANCES STEERLING

 

 

I wrote this

in a letter to my father

during a heated correspondence

about about his employer,

Dow Chemical

 

I have long since

apologized to him

and hereby apologize to

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

for cannibalizing

his timeless quotation

 

My next page is here

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