<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>After 50 years with CBS, the last 22 years as host to CBS Sunday Morning, Charles Osgood fades into retirement at he end of today's show.</div><div><br></div><div>In his honor, I post a poem Charles Osgood wrote and recited on the air a few years ago . . .</div><div><br></div><div>--------------------</div><div><br></div><div><h4 style="text-align: start; border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0.425em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; clear: both;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“The Responsibility Poem”<span style="font-weight: normal;"> by Charles Osgood</span></span></h4><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-align: center;"></p><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">There was a most important job that needed to be done,</span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">And no reason not to do it, there was absolutely none.</span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">But in vital matters such as this, the thing you have to ask</span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Is who exactly will it be who’ll carry out the task?</span></div><p></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-align: center;"></p><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Anybody could have told you that Everybody knew</span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">That this was something Somebody would surely have to do.</span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Nobody was unwilling; Anybody had the ability.</span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">But Nobody believed that it was their responsibility.</span></div><p></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-align: center;"></p><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">It seemed to be a job that Anybody could have done,</span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">If Anybody thought he was supposed to be the one.</span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">But since Everybody recognized that Anybody could,</span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Everybody took for granted that Somebody would.</span></div><p></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-align: center;"></p><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">But Nobody told Anybody that we are aware of,</span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">That he would be in charge of seeing it was taken care of.</span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">And Nobody took it on himself to follow through,</span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">And do what Everybody thought that Somebody would do.</span></div><p></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-align: center;"></p><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">When what Everybody needed so did not get done at all,</span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Everybody was complaining that Somebody dropped the ball.</span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Anybody then could see it was an awful crying shame,</span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">And Everybody looked around for Somebody to blame.</span></div><p></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-align: center;"></p><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Somebody should have done the job</span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">And Everybody should have,</span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">But in the end Nobody did</span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">What Anybody could have.</span></div><p></p></div><div>---------------------------------</div><div><br><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Moscow Cares"</span></div><div><a href="http://www.moscowcares.com/" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">http://www.MoscowCares.com</font></a></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></div><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tom Hansen</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Moscow, Idaho</span></div></div><div><br></div></div></div></body></html>