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Jilly_in_VA

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2. When I think of him

Reply to jls4561 (Reply #1)

Wed Feb 26, 2025, 06:23 PM

Feb 2025

I always think of Vachel Lindsay's poem "The Congo", much of which is impossibly racist, but these lines stand out:

"Listen to the yell of Leopold's ghost
Burning in hell for his hand-maimed host"

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I was thinking of Leopold when Drumph was blathering about "rare earths". jls4561 Feb 2025 #1

When I think of him Jilly_in_VA Feb 2025 #2