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USA Today

Mon Dec 3, 2007, 6:07 PM
  • Mood: Lonely
  • Listening to: The Star-Spangled Banner
  • Reading: Newspaper
  • Watching: My sunburned skin get redder
  • Playing: AOE3
  • Eating: Banana chips
  • Drinking: A&W
Thirteen stripes, fifty stars
Teenage mothers and titty bars
Morals forsaken and high crime rate
No prayer in school, children unsafe
Gunmen abound and people will kill
Children are murderers, teens pop pills
This shows the state America is in
Yet it's ignored in the State of the Union

Child abuse and domestic violence
Anger and road rage, none of it makes sense
Churches are burned and people drive drunk
Rapists forgiven since they can slam dunk
Disrespected teachers, havoc in our streets
People bashing soldiers, adultery discreet
America the Beautiful is bleeding on the floor
And we her people kick her and then walk out the door.

Fights in the schools and petty theft
Sex on TV, there's no innocence left
Rioting protesters, intolerant jerks
Perversion and horridness passed off as "quirks"
Porn seen by children, pedophiles free
Millions of murders each year on TV
Still our flag flies in the breeze
Watching, surely, with much unease.

Schools in California fly the Mexican flag
Fred Phelps' hate group, "God Hates Fags"
Nobody cares that the marriage rate's down
It's no shock Lincoln's statue wears a frown
Cars have flag stickers wrong side up
Panhandlers on corners, holding a paper cup
Veterans are disappointed and I'm seeing why
The state I see my nation in makes me want to cry

Date rape, meth, and crack-cocaine
Hope and Faith inch down the drain
Disrespect for our nation as a whole
THE UNITED STATES IS LOSING ITS SOUL!
Our enemies are surely seeing this
They lie in wait, and their nukes will not miss
America, please, I am begging you to see
That we were once so very great. That's how we need to be.

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:iconthegame4ever:
Woah, america's not THAT bad! Focus on the good stuff, that poem is too pessimistic hehe. Age of Empires 3 eh? I thought you sucked at videogames? :P
:iconsandbomb:
Actually.......uhhh...yeah, that is how Bad America is, even worse than what she's described here.
And this all doesnt make her a pessimist at all, just because she can acknowledge the bad side of something, it makes her a realist, it takes a person with guts to do that.
So good work Kelly.

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:iconin-memorial:
You live in Kuwait. These things are I live with and read in the newspaper every day. All of these things are things that have affected me personally.
And yes, America has tons of things in it that are good, but this poem is focusing on that which we need to fix.

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"Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within." -James Baldwin
:iconin-memorial:
Thank you for getting it. :) Love ya bro.
~Kelly

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"Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within." -James Baldwin
:iconthegame4ever:
Always the bad and the good, no matter where you are, so just concentrate on that goodness. Not like the bad hasn't disappeared, not saying 'just pretend it didn't exist' but in my pov if you're alive and you're healthy, and you have basic needs fulfilled, then it's all good. :)
:iconin-memorial:
Mrrrreh. *shrugs*

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"Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within." -James Baldwin
:iconin-memorial:
yay! hugs! >:D<

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"Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within." -James Baldwin
:iconsandbomb:
buy me dinner ._.

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The only way out is through
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