Open AccessBittersweet
Author(s) -
Adrian M. Schnall
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
pathogens and immunity
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2469-2964
DOI - 10.20411/pai.v6i1.415
Subject(s) - dozen , pride , face (sociological concept) , battlefield , visual arts , history , advertising , art , media studies , sociology , political science , law , ancient history , business , social science , arithmetic , mathematics
The winner has been declared.A flood of relief!Exultation! Dancing in the streets!And a gasp of horror.How can there be tens of millions on the other side? So many morethan a couple dozen Proud Boys,a few towns of hillbilly farmers, a frenzied rally crowd chanting Lock her up.It’s fathers and mothers, sisters and brothers,face upon human face.Is it them or us? Who are the blind? Fires still flare on the battlefield – one is raging on and off in the distance. But every blaze is dying as I watch. Great conflagrations are turning to ash.The forecast is for snowon the mountaintops, in the streets,in the corridors of State.Pride needs to go into hibernation.I think the air will be clearin the morning. I think I will hear music in the trees.But no one is surrenderinghis gun.