Francesca Moroney
Aug 25, 2017 · 1 min read

THE MORNING PAPER

by Mary Oliver

Read one newspaper daily (the morning edition
is the best
for by evening you know that you at least
have lived through another day)
and let the disasters, the unbelievable yet approved decisions,
soak in.
I don’t need to name the countries,
ours among them.
What keeps us from falling down, our faces
to the ground; ashamed, ashamed?

Oliver, Mary (2012–10–11). A Thousand Mornings

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Francesca Moroney

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