A Reason for Poetry

The other night, I was crusing around the Internet a bit...Facebook, news, etc. For some time, I've consider the rancor, the anger, the bile surrounding much of politics and political speech to be corrosive and hateful. I am a firm believer in respecting the right of free expression, but I do not believe I must, in the end, respect the opinion.

Anyways, I perhaps too much place an emphasis on alleviating unnecessary or preventable suffering. Some of the more stirring and radical concepts in th...