8 UCW NOVEMBER 13-19, 2019
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Editor's note: e following is a reprint of a Facebook post by Earl Vaughan
Jr. on election night.
In the wake of the reelection of Mayor Jackie Warner and Commissioner Pat
Edwards, the historic election of Kenjuana McCray to the board along with
the return to the board of Bryan Marley, I share this poem by Edgar Guest. It is
dedicated to a voice of hate and divisiveness that has flooded Facebook in this
election cycle with vicious personal attacks and perversions of truth. Here's
to Mayor Warner and the new board of commissioners and the hope they will
unite to exemplify the high ideals shared in these words.
I watched them tearing a building down,
A gang of men in a busy town.
With a ho-heave-ho and a lusty yell,
ey swung a beam, and the side wall fell.
I asked the foreman: "Are these skilled--
And the men you'd hire if you had to build?"
He gave me a laugh and said: "No, indeed!
Just common labor is all I need.
I can wreck in a day or two
What builders have taken a year to do."
And I thought to myself as I went my way,
Which of these roles have I tried to play?
Am I a builder who works with care
Measuring life by a rule and square?
Am I shaping my deeds to a well made Plan,
Patiently doing the best I can?
Or am I a wrecker, who walks the town
Content with the labor of tearing down?
Congratulations to newly elected
candidates
by EARL VAUGHAN JR.
EDITOR
EARL VAUGHAN JR., Senior
Staff Writer. COMMENTS? Edi-
tor@upandcomingweekly.com.
910-484-6200.
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