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American Dreams

It’s a time to be fresh, to be plucked wriggling out of a shining land or sea, a fresh humanity, still moon-ray buckled and gold, no evidence of city, and crap-house crud. America, you can do this. I am a being from the old, I am from the end times, my transfiguration is your promise our manifest destiny. It’s not too late, wipe your dirty face America. I am ready, ready to soar out of a landfill like a prismatic vulture, my naked head newly scrubbed of old blood.

Copyright © | Year Posted 2019




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Date: 8/20/2019 7:06:00 AM
Much needed. A new mythology. ‘ America you can do this.’ SuZ
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Eric Ashford
Date: 8/20/2019 7:20:00 AM
We live in hope Suz, a great country that can always do better! Thanks!

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