LET US NOT PRAISE FAMOUS MEN (June 10) —
Old dead white men are essential.
We would not exist but for them
solving the puzzle within the conundrum,
standing between us and mayhem.
Where would we be without old dead white men?
Where would we be without old dead white men?
We would not, I would warrant, be civilized.
For it is true it was solely through them
that human potential was realized.
For fire and farming, for war, for the arts
we must give thanks to all those old farts,
pioneers through the years whose guiding hand
destroyed, in turn, each promised land
that they created (if only by chance),
establishing benchmarks for man's unkind advance.
Huzzah! Let us cheer our old dead white men,
knowing that soon there will be still more of them.