Father’s Day 2016, Beans and Leaves
Music disseminates truth,
A weapon of mass instruction.
Our music is family unrelated by blood.
It contains multitudes.
We must be vigilant
We must be citizen soldiers
Stripped of fear.
Our optimism is magnified
In our music.
We sing of ourselves.
The songs we create
Address our own condition,
Will ultimately sing of another,
And another.
—Patti Smith