Address to Congress, 2/24/09, in fourteen stanzas

1.

You don't need numbers
To see the truth
Of this
Recession's
Azimuth:
Pointingdown


2.

The answers lie
Within our reach
With those who make
And those
who teach:
Imagipreneurs

3.

It's time we come
To recognize
That short-term
Thinking
Isn't wise:
Agendaset

4.

I know the skeptics
Don't believe
But I've got
Nothing
Up my sleeve:
It'sontheweb

5.

We'll break the cycle
Re-start the credit
We'll do it
Just the way
I said it:
Accountable

6.

The Wall Street traders
Start to sing
A sad song
When they see
The strings:
Notaboutthebanks

7.

We must acknowledge
Bigger facts;
We can't let
Anger guide
Our acts:
Solvetheproblem

8.

History teaches
That the nation
Responds
To crisis
With transformation:
Conditionate

9.

We're oil addicts
To get off it
Green energy
Must turn
A profit:
Reimagine

10.

Though it might
Be tempting fate
Health care
Reform
Cannot wait:
Consciencecause


11.

For schools to offer
Better courses
They need more
Than a few
Resources:
Togethernow

12.

In the long run
We'll have to get
Our children's
Children
Out of debt:
Inheriburden

13.

I think about
Leonard Abess
Ty’Sheoma Bethea
Greensburg
Kansas:
Noquitterswe

14.

We may not always
Have agreed
But want
Our country
To succeed:
Godblessetc.


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