LareDOS[redux] (https://laredosnews.com/category/columns/page/11/)
45 years later the gunshot called up the echo of Kent State, My Lai, Tet, Walter Cronkite, Saigon, Berkeley, Bobby Kennedy, Woodstock, Nixon, Weathermen, Memphis, Martin Luther King Jr.
He was 58, but looked like 100 years-old.
Like Lawrence, Leary and Cantinflas, like Highsmith, García Márquez stopped here
“I will not witness discordant rhetoric without speaking out as a concerned citizen.”
Lanham addressed nature’s bounty, conservation, and the heated, still smoldering battlefield of racism
Like any good dictator, 45 wants a military parade
The weak spot had always really been all mine
“How long before someone and then someone else steps over that line, crosses the gates and barriers, and strikes the fatal blows against the source of the stench skulking out of the east and drags it across the gutter and off into history?”
An abiding reverence for how water changes lives
