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The flower of good minds does also in the desert grow,
And has a chance to bloom and to unfold,
If someone minds enough it tender care to show,
For else it withers, beauty never to be seen,
Consigned to the so sadest place of all,
The tragic place of 'might have been',
Drab flowers, nourished in good soil on some estate,
Despite all love and care, no beauty do display,
Do often not enhance the value of the democratic state,
While brilliant flowers, undernourished, waste away,
This thought to 'moral' politicians' I would advocate,
To so-called 'compassionate' Republicans would recommend,
If they to moneyed candidates only would open college gates,
And bring the concept of free college to an end.

Alfred Charasz
Copyright 2005 Alfred Charasz