Wednesday 7 February 2018

waiting for America (start again)

Waiting for America
over the horizon

Waiting for America
to sink beneath the waves

and start again
and start again

Waiting for America
smoke over Phoenix? [[ too obvious allusion to the mythical bird? Eh. I'm keeping it.]]

Waiting for America
to burn to the ground

and start again
and start again

I can't remember 
the anthem of America

Do you remember 
the anthem of America?

It's just another 
song about another war

The war when someone burned 
the White House down

The war when someone ran
the president out of town

Escape from Washington 
burn the fucker down 

and start again
and start again



[[ An anti-anthem for America, and not a very good one. It needs lots of work. It's not supposed to be wishing things to fall apart, but just waiting for things to fall apart, because that's the way it looks like it's going. But I'll let Blogger be my backup in the meantime. ]]

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