Starting Today strikes again! Day 70 ...

If you haven't been following the progress of the First 100 Days of the Obama administration in poetry on the exquisite blog, Starting Today: Poems for the first 100 Days, you've been missing out on some amazing work. Check out previous posts about it here and here.

Today, Day #70, features the amazingly specific and specifically amazing poet, A. Van Jordan who takes a warriors stance and recasts it, beautifully:

“The farmers have won. Not us.”
-from The Seven Samurai, by Akira