Good Bye

From a distant
past I hear
today,
while
whistling
Yankee Doodle
and
washing dishes
smeared with bar-B-Que sauce
sprinkles
of
pie crust crumbs
and
drops
of
cold cinamon sweet apples.
Farewell,
or
Fare Thee Well,
prehaps
PEACE UNTO YOU.
We the people!
MUST HAVE
(not NBC T.V.)
but
COLOR BLIND ,
Proper words,
for our proper people
constantly edited
and rewrited
by HAMILTON
or
was it Madison,
Our first leader
said.
To the mases
huddled in fear
and doubt
concerning our experiment.
Representive Democracy!
Our model for the World.
A shining light
shone from
Plymouth Rock
Displaying
Providence
a NEW ROCK
in the
NEW WORLD
IN GOD WE TRUST
no other.

The Republic For:
PEACE!
LIBERTY!
and
The pursuit of
HAPPINESS.
Brave and Bold
He rode his horse
into the setting sun
to rise again
on the lips
of this patriot:
Be wary of:
Beware of:
dividing your self
between the OLD
and
NEW
Just be one:
I AM AMERICAN!
Today,
placing
clean dishes
in an old cabinet
with rusty hinges,
I think:
My Country
that was made
for ones similar to me:
AMERICAN!
are being
sacrificed and sold
to the OLD WORLD:
BRITIAN,
JERUSALEM,
EGPYT,
our
young men are dying
in IRAQ and AFGHANISTHAN
and losing their minds
for "Lot's wife syndrome."
LOSING OUR BLESSING
for the
TANGIBLE
ALMIGHTY DOLLAR
but
NOT
the IDEAS and Aspirations
printed on the Bill,
portraying
George Washington.
making me,
FEEL
ill at ease,
and sick to my stomach
for many moons,
we are giving
away the American Dream
I will say
GOODBYE.