America

Now, I warned you, eons back, that on occasion I would write something ultra-conservative. If this is going to offend you, please stop reading RIGHT NOW.

However, if we are truly friends (or family), I hope you will at least read today's post, consider my opinion, and take time to discuss your opinions with someone you don't agree with.

In my humble estimation, our future depends on it.

To the tune "America, The Beautiful" (with unending gratitude to Katharine Lee Bates and Samuel Ward, whose artistry I will never be able to touch in this life, and whose words and melody still make me cry when I hear them. May America find its way back to the utopia of your song.)

Oh, beautiful, for spacious malls
For greenbacks we can spend
For hoarding things and being mean
With the words we expend

America, America, ashamed is what we should be.
We're crowned ourselves
With a bit of Hell
From sea to shining sea.

Oh, wonderful, those welfare checks
That enslave our fellow man
That take away his dignity
And his world incarcerate.

America, America, we must find liberty.
Help fellow man
On himself depend
From sea to shining sea.

Our future kids, we've thrown away
With hatred and with pain.
We've killed them all with "it's OK"
Our tears should fall like rain.

America, America, when will we ever get?
That killing babes
Is not a game
Their souls we shan't forget.

Now, it seems, that it is good
To punish those who work
Who give the jobs, the food, the homes
And then are labeled "jerks"

America, America, when will we wake to see?
That from the job
You should not rob
Those who provide for thee.

America, my dear country, we're in a sorry state.
We've learned such things as greed and hate
On love we turn away

America, America, let's turn this thing around.
And put the crown
Where it belongs
On the TRUE head of state.