THE BOOK OF DAMN
YANKEES
OTHERWISE KNOWN AS THE BOOK OF MANIFEST DESTINY
Lee feels like a grandfather
Chapter 46
As it happens, there’s a funny thing about history,
2jWhich is that when a lot of it is going on,
3It’s kind of hard to stop it,
4Or even slow it down,
5Just because everybody would like some peace and quiet,
6And a little breathing room.
7Immediately after the Civil War,
8Almost everybody was relieved that it was over at last,
9And Lincoln said some nice things in his second inaugural address,
10kThings about malice toward none,
11lAnd how a divided house can’t stand the heat in the kitchen,
12mOr words to that effect,
13nWhich eventually might have gotten everybody calmed down a little bit,
14oSo they could think what to do next,
15Only Lincoln went to see a pplay at Ford’s Theater instead,
16Where an assassin named qJohn Wilkes Booth assassinated him,
17And took away the greatest president the northeastern states of the U.S. ever had.
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