TV-New Amsterdam

It is on my playlist after its three episode preview. Even the criminal case this week was pretty interesting. And the glimpes of his past lives still intrigue.

I also like that they did not dumb it down too much. In the past he was a doctor during the Civil War, and his assistant was a man named Walt. I knew as an English major that this was Walt Whitman, the great American poet, but they never did ever say his whole name, though they showed his seminal book, "Leaves of Grass." If people did not get it, oh well.

One of the poems from Leaves of Grass:

I Sit and Look Out



I SIT and look out upon all the sorrows of the world, and upon all oppression and shame;
I hear secret convulsive sobs from young men, at anguish with themselves, remorseful after deeds done;
I see, in low life, the mother misused by her children, dying, neglected, gaunt, desperate;
I see the wife misused by her husband—I see the treacherous seducer of young women;
I mark the ranklings of jealousy and unrequited love, attempted to be hid—I see these sights on the earth; 5
I see the workings of battle, pestilence, tyranny—I see martyrs and prisoners;
I observe a famine at sea—I observe the sailors casting lots who shall be kill’d, to preserve the lives of the rest;
I observe the slights and degradations cast by arrogant persons upon laborers, the poor, and upon negroes, and the like;
All these—All the meanness and agony without end, I sitting, look out upon,
See, hear, and am silent.

This is a good show.