The Pot Is Melting

The pot is melting...
The 'great melting pot'
This elaborately constructed pot holds a motley of colors and flavors 
Once strong and pleasing to the eye, bustling with all of its aromatic juices, flavors, and textures 
The great pot of RED, WHITE, and BLUE draws so many, and the few
Indigenous peoples and many others from great and small distances assimilate in this great pot
For a while, the cooking and eating were good, I mean pretty good 
So good that still more ingredients desire to be added to this melting pot to bolster the flavor even more
But now, this great pot is disintegrating
Too hot now, is this pot
Too hot with deleterious elements that threaten the constitution of this great amalgamation 
The pot is melting 
The 'great melting pot'...
It is melting
Copyright © | Year Posted 2026

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