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The ceremony of innocence is drowned

by Lorenzo Santoro

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Some may have blamed us that we cease to speak 05:23
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A vast image out of Spiritus Mundi 03:58
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Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle 05:03
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Under a bitter black wind that blows from the left hand 02:56
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Angers that are like noisy clouds have set our hearts abeat 02:50
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In all poor foolish things that live a day, Eternal beauty wandering on her way. 06:25
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Then you came with those red mournful lips 09:27
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about

"I want to thank you all for coming. I want to thank Chairman Brady and the Ways and Means Committee for hosting us here. I had the privilege of joining this committee my second term in Congress. It’s the perfect setting for what I want to talk with you about today. Because it is here, in this committee, that we debate some of the biggest, most consequential issues. Our tax code, health care, trade, entitlement programs, welfare reform. t’s a big deal to be on this committee. And understanding the privilege and the responsibility that came along with it, we took our job seriously.

"And we always held ourselves to a higher standard of decorum. We treated each other with respect. We disagreed—often fiercely so—but we disagreed without being disagreeable. I speak of this in the past tense only because I no longer serve here. But it almost sounds like I’m speaking of another time, doesn’t it? It sounds like a scene unfamiliar to your generation.

"Looking around at what’s taking place in politics today, it is easy to get disheartened. How many of you find yourself just shaking your head at what you see from both sides? You know, I see myself in each of you. I came here as a curious college intern. Trying to get a sense of everything. Trying to figure out where to take my life. I would always ask older, more experienced people: what do you know that you wished you knew when you were my age?

"This is my answer to that. Here is what I know now that I want you to know—that you cannot see yourself today. And that is not just a lesson for young minds, but a message for all Americans. Our political discourse—both the kind we see on TV and the kind we experience among each other—did not use to be this bad and it does not have to be this way. Now, a little skepticism is healthy. But when people distrust politics, they come to distrust institutions. They lose faith in their government, and the future too. We can acknowledge this. But we don’t have to accept it. And we cannot enable it either.

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released May 15, 2016

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Lorenzo Santoro Rome, Italy

Born in the French Caribbean in the late 19th century, He eventually settled in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City, where he quickly established a considerable criminal empire. In the 1930s, Despite his loss of power, He was able to live comfortably off of his profits; after a brief stint in prison devoted most of her energies to civil rights causes. ... more

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