Sidney Beck Poet Free verse

Hyphenated Americans

HYPHENATED AMERICANS

You have the biggies like Chinese-Americans
And Latino-Americans and German-Americans;
And miniscule groups like Armenian-Americans
Or   Bosnia-and-Herzegovinan-Americans;
But why do we never hear of  English-Americans,
Scottish-Americans or Welsh-Americans?
Sound weird  don’t they?  Kinda unnecessary.
Anyone ever heard of Canadian-Americans?
Or Australian-  or New Zealand-  oh  why?
And hey,  what about French-Americans?

These are not hyphenated Americans
They are eliminated Americans, 
And other groups include
Old people, who  are Antiquated-Americans
Mothers  -  Unappreciated-Americans
Pre-1492  Yanks are  Antedated-Americans
AFL-CIO  are  Aggregated-Americans
Dwarfs are Truncated-Americans
Smog-breathing residents of LA  are 
Asphyxiated-   or Hyperventilated-Americans.
Thank God I’m normal, I’m just American.

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Nigel Fox December 21, 2010 at 1:53 PM American ? But do you mean coming from South or North America, or maybe Latin America ? Point of Order!

Carolyn Devonshire December 21, 2010 at 12:46 PM We're just all part of a melting pot, Syd. I rarely hear of such references except when it comes to Native Americans and African Americans. You second verse is very funny! According to the first one, I would be a German-Polish-British-Swiss-Swedish American. LOL Cut poem with original thoughts. Soup mail returned; didn't know you had used a British spelling -- that's perfectly fine. See mail. Love, Carolyn