Wednesday, July 04, 2012

God Bless America


America the beautiful
America the flawed
Land of
Lollipops and
Lynchings
Freedoms and
Fredricksburg
Chickamauga
Shiloh
Antietam
Gettysberg
Andersonville and
The Wartime Civilian Control Agency Civilian Assembly Centers
America is the Grand Canyon and
The Hoover Dam and
The lights of Vegas at night and
The Chevy in the Hole plant
Then and
Now
It is Roe v. Wade and
Brown v. Board of Ed. And
The Miracle on Ice and
The ice cream truck
Rolling down the streets of Levittown
Pennsylvania
In 1950
Being chased by kids holding quarters or
Even dimes
America is
The Constitution
The Call of the Wild
The little House on the Prairie
The
Hustler
Penthouse
Playboy
It is the liberation of Europe and
Patrice Lumumba
America
It is my land
It is your land
All of it
So
God bless America

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