Election Section

DEAR earth commUNity friends 

especially the Berkeley variety 

and/or the UC Berkeley variety 

and especially the Acroft Court variety 

and especially the thousands or more 

to whom I delivered for the United States Postal Service 

and United Nations Postal Union 

both junk and marvelous stuff for about 30 years 

and the UNcertain number to whom I handed out 

Berkeley Daily Planets for about three years 

and the less huge but very neighborhoodly/friendly neighbors 

on-the-court and beyond  

and of course our kids (Calvin, Lee and Grace) 

and Berkeley schools Whittier, Garfield/King 

and good old BHS ‘46 and UC Berkeley ‘50 

(which claimed to be nifty) 

and our 6 billion friends on our ONE WORLD, 

so named by Wendell Willkie 

but now 192 nation states 

who are on the right track 

but hardly nurtured 

since the UN was born in 1945 

the same year the BOMB was born 

and so overly nurtured at UC Berkeley 

and many places of so-called “higher learning” 

where WORLD WITHOUT WAR a “puzzlement” 

and no body has yet foUNd 

anything like a solution 

to our human-being-created-catastrophe 

EXCEPT MAYBE POSITIVE PRAYER 

IN CONNECTION WITH BLOOD, SWEAT AND TEARS. 

Like I tell my UNitarian/UNiversalist friends- 

“It can’t hurt! IT MAY HELP!”