image: An Iraqi boy walks past stagnant water in the Sadr City section of Baghdad, Iraq in this March 23, 2005 file photo. Baghdad’s mayor decried the capital’s crumbling infrastructure and its inability to supply enough water to residents, threatening Thursday June 30, 2005 to resign if the government fails to provide the funds he says he needs to improve utilities. (AP Photo/Samir Mizban/File)
Cross-posted at DailyKos, Booman Tribune, and European Tribune.
image and poem below the fold
Once by the Pacific
by Robert Frost
The shattered water made a misty din.
Great waves looked over others coming in,
And thought of doing something to the shore
That water never did to land before.
The clouds were low and hairy in the skies,
Like locks blown forward in the gleam of eyes.
You could not tell, and yet it looked as if
The shore was lucky in being backed by cliff,
The cliff in being backed by continent;
It looked as if a night of dark intent
Was coming, and not only a night, an age.
Someone had better be prepared for rage.
There would be more than ocean-water broken
Before God’s last ‘Put out the Light’ was spoken.
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