The General ♥ Lenore from Maryland

My inner Frenchman is as happy as an Heartland conservative at a petting zoo. He loves Ani DiFranco. Her album, Educated Guess, is fantastic.

Thanks, Lenore.

From Animal, by Ani DiFranco:

ask any eco-system
harm here is harm there
and there and there
and aggression begets aggression
it's a very simple lesson
that long preceded any king of heaven
and there's this brutal imperial power
that my passport says i represent
but it will never represent where my heart lives
only vaguely where it went

cuz i know when you grow up surrounded
by willful ignorance
you learn that mercy has its own country
and that it's round and borderless
and then you just grow wings
and rise above it all
like there
where that hawk is circling
above that strip mall