Found poem in the form of the first half of a speech Woody Guthrie gave back in the 1950s or so. I voice it from a poster that was printed many years ago. If you Google half a dozen of these words or so, you'll find that Woody's statement is quoted all over the place. I often wonder if people who quote his words really mean it, or does it just feel good.

I hate a song that makes you think that you are not any good.
I hate a song that makes you think that you are just born to lose. Bound to lose.
No good to nobody. No good for nothing.
Because you are too old or too young or too fat or too slim too ugly or too this or too that.
Songs that run you down or poke fun at you on account of your bad luck or hard traveling.
I am out to fight those songs to my very last breath of air and my last drop of blood.
I am out to sing songs that will prove to you that this is your world
and that if it has hit you pretty hard and knocked you for a dozen loops,
no matter what color, what size you are, how you are built,
I am out to sing the songs that make you take pride in yourself and in your work.
And the songs that I sing are made up for the most part by all sorts of folks just about like you.

- Woody Guthrie

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