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Looking for a laugh

On a Sunday afternoon

Turn on the tv

In a quiet little room

I tune into

Saturday Night Live

A little comedy sketch show

That found a niche and thrived.

As I watch Weekend Update

Over the past 40 years

I realize yesterday’s problems

Have never disappeared

We’ve been experiencing

Recessions, poverty and war

Since greed and power became

Everything we searched for

From Henry Ford to Dr. King,

From Audrey to Madonna

From Hitler to Saddam

From Reagan to Obama

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Though yesterday may

Seem shinier and bright

It is no template for the now

We forget about hindsight

The past has been

Tempered by the cloudiness of memory

Their mistakes too were vast

Look back and you will see

Let us live in the now

And rely on a new way

The system has been broken

It’s time for a new day