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my strange nation
Image by McBeth
My Strange Nation
By Susan Werner
Produced by Crit Harmon
© 2006 Susan Werner
My strange nation
Has ocean on two sides
And the `Bama Crimson Tide in the south
Tilted slightly toward the north
The immigrants pour forth
Seeking Phoenix
And life hand to mouth
My strange nation
Tilts sharply to the right
With our leaders straight and white
As our teeth
Our population’s mixed
But our election’s fixed
In my Strange Nation
America
My strange nation
Built on the backs of slaves
Who were sailed here cross the waves
From far away
This cruel experiment
Was ended by a president
Who was both
A republican … and gay
My strange nation
Gave the Indians our germs
They surrendered on our terms
As in Died
Their survivors filed appeals
So we gave them roulette wheels
In my Strange Nation
America
But my Strange Nation
Has lost its mind again
Sending young women and men
Off to war
For reasons that aren’t clear
Unless you’re standing near
To the rich and the righteous
And the bored
And my strange nation
Enamored of the cross
And who will win the toss
Of the coin
The circus and the bread
Distract us from the dead
In my Strange Nation
America
But my Strange Nation
Will surely come around
For you cannot hold us down for long
We’ll sputter and we’ll cough
And throw the despots off
And recover the soul that makes us strong
And my frustration
Is just a product of
My strange but loyal love
For this land
For its mountains and its lakes
Tornadoes and earthquakes
For its poets and pioneers
For its fetishes and fears
For its freedom of dissent
For its greasy government
And I will not change this stance
I will not move to France.
I will always hold out one more chance
For my Strange Nation
America.
365÷52 Day 19: Sushi Without Chopsticks (2/52 Rounds of Flickr Roulette)
Image by brotherxii
Sushi is the original one-handed food. Which is weird when you consider that drive-through eateries didn’t seem to take off in Japan in the same way as they have in North America. You’d think that the country that invented the ideal finger food would spawn a nation of people soiling their steering wheels with the oily omega three fatty acids of raw tuna and salmon, but it just didn’t seem to happen.
In fact, a few years back when some cars built in the eighties were being recalled for faulty seatbelt buckles, the Japanese companies that made the cars complained the buckles would function just fine if Americans weren’t so untidy and would stop eating in their cars!
For the Flickr Group Roulette theme One-handed Food.
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Day 19 of my 365÷52 Photo Project
& 2/52 Rounds of Flickr Roulette
Yes, this could have been part of my FÜD 52 too, I suppose. But it ain’t.
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