By: Margaret G. Bell

Margaret G. Bell — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 16:04:19 +0000

Thanks for demonstrating an ability to maintain core values while adjusting to an ever changing society. This magazine uses new electronic publishing tools while maintaining archives to preserve the original printed versions for historical purposes. Like most writers, I want people to read what I write, but I don’t want them to revise the original published version of my work without my permission.
Let’s hope for a legislative proposal, supported by the public, to keep libraries and book stores alive and healthy in an era when man’s creativity threatens the rights of other creative people to preserve their original works in their original style.

Thanks to the Post, also, for making room for poetry in each issue. Newspapers used to do that. Even ancient Greeks gave poetry a place in history by caving poems in stone. Poetry can speak volumes about important issues using very few words.

By: Ima Ryma

Ima Ryma — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 07:49:46 +0000

John D. Rockefeller – name ’tis
Synonymous with big, big bucks.
Right time, right place in the oil biz,
The richest of the rich – aw shucks.
Family and charities got
A big chunk of the fortune made.
The U.S. government got hot,
So soak the wealthy plans were laid.
Revenue Act of ’35
Pushed up the top tax bracket rate
On just John D. who was alive,
Then up and died at 98.

Death and taxes – ever one’s chased,
And then both tend to go to waste.

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