{"id":3049,"date":"2010-11-02T16:51:36","date_gmt":"2010-11-02T16:51:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=3049"},"modified":"2010-11-02T16:51:36","modified_gmt":"2010-11-02T16:51:36","slug":"the-writers-almanac-on-election-day-and-every-day-hereafter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2010-11\/the-writers-almanac-on-election-day-and-every-day-hereafter\/","title":{"rendered":"The Writer’s Almanac On Election Day (and Every Day Hereafter)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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As we’ve written about before, Garrison Keillor is a national treasure<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 He is for us America’s Lifetime Entertainer Laureate.<\/p>\n

If you haven’t checked it out before, check out Keillor’s stellar daily dose of poetry, prose and literary history here<\/strong><\/a> at The Writer’s Almanac<\/strong>.\u00a0 Today’s offering gives us the following C.G. Hanzlicek poem:<\/p>\n

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“To Be a Danger<\/h2>\n

by C.G. Hanzlicek<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Just once I’d like to be a danger
\nTo something in this world,
\nBe hunted by cops
\nAnd forced into hiding in the mountains,
\nSince if they left me on the streets
\nI’d turn the country around,
\nChanging everyone’s mind with a word.<\/p>\n

But I’ve lived so long a quiet life,
\nIn a world I’ve made small,
\nThat even my own mind changes slowly.
\nI’m a danger only to myself,
\nLike the daydreaming night watchman
\nSmoking his cigar
\nNear the dynamite shed.<\/p>\n

“To Be a Danger” by C.G. Hanzlicek, from The Cave<\/em>. \u00a9 University of Pittsburgh Press, 2001.”
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