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The Funeral of Martin Luther King, Jr.

Nikki Giovanni

His headstone said
FREE AT LAST, FREE AT LAST
But death is a slave’s freedom
We seek the freedom of free men
And the construction of a world
Where Martin Luther King could have lived
and preached non-violence.




Quotes of the Day

He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.
• Marcus Tullius Cicero


Poems of the Day
  • Richard Wilbur
    The Writer
    by Richard Wilbur
    In her room at the prow of the house Where light breaks, and the windows are tossed with linden, My daughter is writing a story.