Innauguration Poem - Beautiful Sack of Manure

 

Good morning. Not many people can upstage Lady Gaga, J.Lo, or a new president. But 22-year-old poet Amanda Gorman managed to steal the show at the inauguration with her transfixing poem, “The Hill We Climb.” Here’s an excerpt: Let the globe, if nothing else, say this is true: That even as we grieved, we grew That even as we hurt, we hoped That even as we tired, we tried That we’ll forever be tied together, victorious Not because we will never again know defeat but because we will never again sow division