<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 37.8pt;"><b><span style="font-size: 24pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(72, 72, 72);">January 6, 2021<o:p></o:p></span></b></p></div><div><br></div><div>by Keith Brown</div><div><br></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(72, 72, 72); background-color: white;">The lady of liberty wept today </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(72, 72, 72);"><br><span style="background-color: white;">Tears of copper red </span><br><span style="background-color: white;">Tears for her sons of anarchy </span><br><span style="background-color: white;">Tears for her COVID dead </span><br><br><span style="background-color: white;">The Eagle hung his head in shame </span><br><span style="background-color: white;">Then folded freedoms wings </span><br><span style="background-color: white;">While Democracy at the edge of despair </span><br><span style="background-color: white;">To reason tenaciously clings </span><br><br><span style="background-color: white;">The corridors of power echo </span><br><span style="background-color: white;">to a nations pains, </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(72, 72, 72);"><span style="background-color: white;">Yet still the </span><span style="background-color: white;">commander in chief's </span><br><span style="background-color: white;">insatiable ego remains </span><br><br><span style="background-color: white;">Brother on brother </span><br><span style="background-color: white;">Father on son </span><br><span style="background-color: white;">Division and hatred grow </span><br><span style="background-color: white;">Have or have not, both will </span><br><span style="background-color: white;">Succumb to the law of old Jim Crow </span><br><br><span style="background-color: white;">Oh America, be great again </span><br><span style="background-color: white;">Stand United, not forlorn </span><br><span style="background-color: white;">For only from </span><br><span style="background-color: white;">Freedom of speech and mutual respect </span><br><span style="background-color: white;">Can true democracy be re-born</span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><br></div>—————————————————<br><br><div dir="ltr"><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" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">http://www.MoscowCares.net</span></div><div><br></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>“A stranger is just a friend you haven’t met.”</div><div>- Roy E. Stolworthy</div><div></div></div></body></html>