The whole set of Revolutionary Letters is lovely, but this little section is on my mind the most.
I’m going to misquote and probably misattribute this, but I remember Simon quoting some political theorist (Bill Connolly?) saying that we had been doing politics for millennia and all we knew for sure was that no one had ever gotten everyone to agree. Thank you Diane di Prima for giving me a little litany for remembering that can be a positive.
Poets, man.