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I Don'T Understand America Part 1

Things I don’t understand They don’t teach that friendships and relationships come and go.. So really forever is a sometimes just a few months They don’t teach that sex isn’t just sex with more than a few bumps That making love doesn’t mean making babies That taking responsibility doesn’t mean blaming And that forgiveness faith and love need to be expressed outside of church Love is the one thing we shouldn’t have to search Not everything can be solved by a pill Now everything is taxed and and soon you’ll receive your oxygen bill Taxes for everything besides to fund school supplies Then wonder why kids are getting worse and worse Kids beating, bullying, killing, I’m begingin to think this country is cursed You’re too fat or you’re too small but informercials can fix that But the things we really need to be concerned about America tells us to sit back Why is it we see on tv to give money to children we’ll never see But are told not to indulge in the ones we see on the street Or the veterans who fought for this country And Are now just part of “modern day society” Well this modern thing seems a little bit barbaric Generation –X more like Generation Xtinction Social media is now Social suicides Social Sex scene We are broken down into categories and sub genres of people Hipsters, Goth, punk, prep, geek. Segregating ourselves based on clothes and music Rather than mind and morals I don’t understand The Spreading of AIDS and STDs Purposely This is the America the beautiful we are just now able to see

Copyright © | Year Posted 2014




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Date: 8/6/2014 9:27:00 PM
ps, I recently wrote one titled "Dumbing Down of the USA" in the spirit of Terance McKenna, Carl G. Jung, Robert Anton Wilson, and dozens of other psilocybin shroom lovin brothers who basted our world with greatness before!~
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Date: 2/4/2014 9:05:00 PM
Such a true poem, sometimes I found myself like this, wondering about this country! Great Write B.! xoxo :)
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Date: 2/4/2014 1:42:00 PM
This is serious and profound writing. I agree with all of it. Never stop asking questions, and always question authority. Bravo, Poet!
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Date: 2/11/2014 2:57:00 PM
Thank you so much !! I have written part two and would love your thoughts!

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