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A Nation (Free verse) by the_poetess
I used to think communism was evil
but that was back when
McCarthy was just a name
red went with blue and white
and I desperatley wanted to be Chinese so I could have straight silky
hair
I think I know more now
I think that I know that communism
is a dream that is good
I think that I know that Mao
wasn't true to Marxism
and that Stalin
was just a paranoid looney
but we also thought that we knew that we were safe in America
and that we would never suffer because of Hiroshima
we thought that nuclear weapons were fun and amazing
but thats what the Greeks thought of Vesuvius
when I close my eyes and look into
the future it's not hard to imagine
the entire world
frozen still
by one large mushroom cloud over the sky
far more terrifying than any volcanoe
Einstein was right the second time
but he was also outspoken and lonely
are we willing to risk that
I'm not
I don't want to die hungry for life
I want to live the American dream without feeling guilty
I want to find my ancestors in the stars
America is coming undone, she's unraveling
in this rootless nation
no one has any anchors; we're just clinging onto
whatever we find
no wonder so many drown
Arogant and Ignorant, there's land up ahead but
we'd rather be drifters
than a third world nation
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