Agnostic about U.S.

God

Apple pie

Country songs

Parades

Old soldiers in cars

Standing and clapping for

The stars and stripes

You take it

I’ll leave it

For

Blues

Jazz

Basketball and

Bruce Springsteen

Hardware stores and

Five and dimes

A great burrito in the mission and

A lecture at the mosque

And

Plantations and

Water hoses and

Internment camps and

Assassinations

Here at home and

In banana republics

Too and

Though I prefer peach and

Berry and

Even pumpkin cheesecake and

Especially strawberry rhubarb

I will eat apple pie and

I’ll even make it

With a lattice top

Apples and

Bananas

Are good for acid reflux sufferers

Who are realists and

Agnostic