ignoring what they choose in all the rest.
Self-evident, it says, these truths too close
for comfort, for if we are all created equal,
creation is implied. And if Creator has endowed
us with these rights, then what about those
citizens who don't believe? Perhaps some
White-out might be helpful, but that
seems a little disrespectful to the learned men
who penned the masterpiece, I think. Erasers,
ineffective on the ink that's stayed intact
for all these centuries. We could, of course,
cut out the lines that don't comply with
all the current compromises, make the Declaration
something like a sheet of cheese from Switzerland.
Experiment in independence hasn't had
that long to prove itself, and time will tell if we
can make it work. The world is watching,
hoping (it would seem) that on a planet with
corruption everywhere democracy has not
survived, united country will, in fact, succeed.
(c) Ellen Gillette, 2013
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