Poem: “Winners And Losers”

 

Introducing his song

Born To Run,

Bruce Springsteen said

“Nobody wins

unless everybody wins.”

 

Referring to working class Americans.

 

I wonder about his take

on wars, sports, or elections,

where nobody wins

unless everybody else

loses.

 

(Editor’s note: poet Shai Ben-Shalom, an Israeli-born biologist, examines current events in the Blacklock’s tradition each and every Sunday)

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