The America in which I want to live
isn't a game
or a commercial
or the latest app
It isn't slow motion breasts
or toothpaste sex,
nor is it cheesy puffs or
trucks as penis enhancers
The America in which
I want to live
is not life as a game
or a commercial, or a war
No, the America in which
I want to live lets
you be you, me be me,
and your neighbors be themselves
in peace
08 February 2011
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nor is it a Walmart
ReplyDeleteon every street corner
sucking our minimum wage
for cheap Chinese trinkets,
cheering us ever onward
to more credit card debt,
that bottomless pit of hell
devised to enslave us all.
Amen
ReplyDeleteA big "right on" to both prior commenters.
ReplyDeleteGood fences make good neighbors, Ian. :-) I think our best course would be to stop being so incredibly judgmental/sanctimonious about our fellow citizens and concentrate instead on making our own lives richer.
Pearl
You nailed it, pal -- So much has to be cleared away to see what's truly (here). - Brendan
ReplyDeleteAmerica is all those things PLUS the right to pick and choose among them. take away that right and you no longer have America.
ReplyDeleteWe, the people, make our own choices. As individuals. That means we must have those choices to make. If we make the wrong choices... well, that's what liberty is all about, isn't it?
I kinda like the "slow motion breasts" though...
And don't forget our right to choose how much freaking food we want to eat!!! and what food we want to eat, when we want to eat it!!
ReplyDeleteAh, the latest from Michelle Obama--to FORCE restaurants to serve smaller food portions! Isn't that the right of the American People how much they want to eat????
Sounds good, bro.
ReplyDeleteFrom a neighbour.
Sounds like a *world* I'd want to live in, but my red, white and blue bleeding heart would just like to see it in America for now.
ReplyDeleteSort of reminds me of the opening monologue to the Superbowl as read by Micheal Douglas... it was goosebump patriotic, but then eroded into being about football and all the commercialism that goes with it.
You say this well.
As always, well said.
ReplyDeleteHave you been channelling John Lennon again?
ReplyDeleteAnd frankly, I agree.
I truly hope you get it.
ReplyDelete(Toothpaste sex?)