Hilton Head Island: an informed electorate; a swan; a goose; an airman; a young girl

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Twelve years ago I wrote in Three Hypotheses:

Democracy does not work and never has, except perhaps on a village scale.

The United States is a plutocracy and always has been in which the monied nobility maintain their control by political contributions and lobbyists, while giving the masses the illusion of the vote.

Four recently read poems,  'Setting a Migrant Goose Free' was written by Po Chu-i who lived  from 772 to 846.  The other three were written by William Butler Yeats who lived from 1865 to 1939.  Coming across 'An Irish Airman Foresees His Death' was meeting an old friend.  I used that poem at the beginning of STORM PASSAGE.  The lines that mean most to me are:

                            Nor law, nor duty bade me fight,

                            Nor public men, nor cheering crowds,

                            A lonely impulse of delight,

                            Drove  to this tumult in the clouds