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America

I read a passage by Ben Franklin.
Some wise words.
He said not to come to America
If you wished to be a patron of the arts.
Not to come, if you live luxuriously on land estates.
Not to come if you wish to attain public office.

More importantly, not to come if you're a writer.
Americans are valued based on our abilities
To work on cars, or smith, or tailor shoes.
America is valued for the farmers
The blue collar workers
And being industrious in a trade
And earning a small living
Where there are neither abject poor
Nor incredible wealth.

I find this is the modern struggle
That there are gentry born from California orchards
And Southern Cotton Fields.
There are politicians making obscene money
And neither working, nor doing anything
But profiting off of their positions.
For, Ben Franklin said that didn't happen in America.
And surely, Americans remember it in our race consciousness
That it was true at a time,
That American politicians were not rich.

But, more on that
Where is my place in this economy?
America's founder said this was not a land for poets.
Europe was.
And I have not the money to move to Europe.
Nor do I have the skill to do anything
Beside write arcane poems about politics and psychology.
God forbid I ever be a governor.
But, I'm born with a mind that understands human nature.
I offend people with it---
Surely, there is an argument with a woman
I am having, which presumes to be that I am stupid
For seeing exactly what I've always seen since a child.
But, there is nothing in this country to reward that.
For it is dead.
Our country never needed it
A mind like my own
For we were mechanics, tailors, farmers,
Cobblers, smiths and coal miners.

With that said,
I ought to have heard it from Ben Franklin himself.
I am unwelcome in my own land.
My talents unnecessary.
However, it is all I am capable of doing. 
I wonder what he would say about it.
 
If this poem seems critical of the United States
It is not.
Rather, hearing it from one of our founders has given me great peace.
Though, it has also shown me that I am incredibly useless.

Liberty Watches

Oh, Maria, from sea to shining sea,
From the canyon which the Giant dug,
To the city where thy greenly feet stand;
Songs against thy fat land are proudly sung

As the blackened Cherethim in armies
March across thy fords and burn thy sweet land,
So babes are shot in the streets untimely,
Oh! great black armies make their ghastly stand.

The speech of Maria's chosen do dim,
The cheerful songs of those merry with wine
Do stop in the dead of night; children
Die, of all creeds and runes, those children die---

The black armies of the Cherethim march
The snakes and cockatrices bite venom
Into the hearts of all dared merry men,
Who. from their daily coffers, now are shunned.

Oh, Maria, From Sea to Shining Sea

Oh, Maria, from sea to shining sea,
From the canyon which the Giant dug,
To the city where thy greenly feet stand;
Songs against thy fat land are proudly sung

As the blackened Cherethim in armies
March across thy fords and burn thy sweet land,
So babes are shot in the streets untimely,
Oh! great black armies make their ghastly stand.

The speech of Maria's chosen do dim,
The cheerful songs of those merry with wine
Do stop in the dead of night; children
Die, of all creeds and runes, those children die---

The black armies of the Cherethim march
The snakes and cockatrices bite venom
Into the hearts of all dared merry men,
Who. from their daily coffers, now are shunned.

More Productive Ways of Saying Stupid American Catch Phrases

American Catch Phrase: If you believe in yourself, you can do anything.

Truth: If you practice real hard, you’ll get good at something.

 

American Catch Phrase: Be positive.

Truth: Have hope.

 

American Catch Phrase: It’s organic.

Truth: It’s not made for marketing.

 

American Catch Phrase: It’s grass roots.

Truth: It was made by someone who wasn’t famous or made a lot of money.

 

American Catch Phrase: Buzz Word

Truth: It’s a common word being used in conversation that will go away in the next five months.

 

American Catch Phrase: Mueller Report

Truth: Nobody really knows why they’re angry

 

American Catch Phrase: Benghazi

Truth: Americans nominated two people under FBI investigation to run for president.

 

American Catch Phrase: The News

Truth: Every violent and debauched thing done in America ending up on camera or talked about.

 

American Catch Phrase: A Good TV Show

Truth: An HBO series that a small portion of the population binged watched on Netflix and everyone else heard about.

 

American Catch Phrase: ESPN, ABC, Fox, Marvel, Pixar, Star Wars

Truth: Disney

 

American Catch Phrase: Copyrights and Patents

Truth: People gonna steal it anyway

 

American Catch Phrase: Kim Kardashian is a loser

Truth: I feel really bad for her, and I wish her a good legal career

 

American Catch Phrase: Brice Harper

Truth: People should be paid for their talent, within reason.

 

Catch Phrase: Manny Machado

Truth: Americans pay 200 dollars to see a baseball game

 

American Catch Phrase: Inflation

Truth: A 40 cent Chocolate Bar in 2001 now costs about 2.50

 

American Catch Phrase: Stock Market

Truth: Nobody really knows how it works, but we still get really scared when the DOW Jones Industrial Average goes down.

 

American Catch Phrase: I like to read.

Truth: Likes to have shelf ornaments, and have read a couple chapters of to brag about to friends.

 

American Catch Phrase: Booktuber

Truth: Someone who actually likes to read, but normally doesn’t understand why writing was invented.

 

American Catch Phrase: Marketing.

Truth: Making something, and then having someone else change it.

 

American Catch Phrase: Cooking

Truth: Taking recipes invented within the last couple of decades, and pretending like it’s a rich tradition.

 

American Catch Phrase: Multiculturalism

Truth: Despising American Culture, but not realizing that the immigrants they are trying to imitate want to be more like us.

 

American Catch Phrase: Intelligent Conversation

Truth: Memorized factoids that get dispersed by binge watching YouTube and then telling other people about it.

 

American Catch Phrase: Buddhism

Truth: Just not caring enough to figure something complicated out.

 

American Catch Phrase: Anti Fascists

Truth: Just about the most fascist people alive.

 

American Catch Phrase: Anonymous

Truth: People who claim to respect the Fourth Amendment, but then go ahead and break it by invading other people’s computers.

 

American Catch Phrase: Isis

Truth: An enemy image meant to distract us or lead us into a really stupid war.

 

American Catch Phrase: Nuclear Power

Truth: Everyone who’s not an American: “OMG.”

 

American Catch Phrase: Intelligent

Truth: Knows how to use words technically correct, but doesn’t listen to anyone enough to understand what they said when they didn’t get something technically correct.

 

American Catch Phrase: Criminal Justice

Truth: DNA evidence is the end all be all of evidence, even though it’s proven very unreliable. Also, NCIS.

 

American Catch Phrase: Lawyer

Truth: Nobody really likes them, though they tend to be a lot more honest than the rest of the world’s so called.