america

america

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america is falling

falling

crashing slowly to

its knees

falling while the

raving preacher man

and old patriots wail

into the air

of unsure purity

singing about

the land of the free

and the home of

the brave

and the white

black folks laugh

a hollow laugh

their eyes skitter

they look for trouble

coming across the tracks

targeting them

by ignoring them

no jobs here

only seething

and gnashing

riding the back of

social injustice

and racial fear

america cries while

secret indians wait

all over the

cold plains

for revenge

revenge for pontiac

and joseph

revenge for yellow wolf

and ten thousand

silent warriors left bleeding

in the mud

of injustice

whimpers seep

from arlington

statesmen collapse

suburban women

in shorts go into

supermarkets to buy

soap

or sen sen one

america shudders

and cuba parts the grass

america

your legs are sweating

the panting kremlin

stalks your daughter

of liberty

in the lavatories

of the u n

as thundering herds of housewives

demand goodness

and other tangibles

over canasta tables

and

scorebooks

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america gasps while

gushing tides of vodka

roll down the gutters

of new york and witchita

and red faced faith healers

pray for money

behind tent flaps

beautiful america

stabbed in the stomach

by unreasonable knives

of complacent virtue

america you are bleeding

and you still are eating

your own hands

you have caused santa claus

to rape the virgin mary

among tinfoil pine trees

america is ill

america is slipping

and sliding down

detergent caked hills

at incredible speeds

to the washed out wastes

of eternal deaths truth

lying sober in fresh

smoldering pits of

silver plated heritage

america has been robbed by

sheet covered question marks

she stands naked

in the alleyways of

organized society

america your knees are cold

americas brainwashed

children stalk forbidden

silent playgrounds

of materialism

searching for more

bearded prophets sink

slowly into memories

of an angry generation

and america stands ignorant

and watches

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o america

you are falling

falling

crashing slowly to your knees

in agonizing prayer

for the salvation of yourself

and your amazing gold tooth

america requiem

patrick henry is praying

for death

america your blacked

lungs are cancerous

america falls while

ulcered and dirt ridged

white collared men

roll out plegmatic

barrels of

piercing imagination grease

rubber lipped hoodlums

picking at warty hands

stomp on by with

leather jackets

and oily necks

america its too dark

fatherless america

where is your mother now

the thought of

the big bomb

bothers me

as i go down the freeway

12:30 am in the midnight

fog and watch america sleep

with itself

america trembles

and quakes under the

swollen feet of

dawns civilization

america has been drugged

by gigantic pills

of over ripereedom

page 4

america you are a cribbage board

you are being nailed to

a finance plan

with high monthly payments

by japanese industrialists

no no no america

where are your going

where will you be

when will the lit match

burn your fingers

america

close cover

before striking

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