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Did you watch them tear down that wall?

by Matthew Zangen

Can you build us another?
Can you build it better?

Red's rockets glare quietly, now,
so bombs can clean the air;
bursting open smokey mountain tops,
it all sounds laissez faire,
spilling borders onto levy-crops,
all across the nations which we lie atop--
cast a shadow, cast a vote,
spin a question, spin a globe,
where the middle finger lands, we stand,
one nation: indivisible,

except for that once,
never again,
never forget,
not in my name,
not on my dollar.

Where were you when the bullet flew?
Did you hear the towers fall?

System, pull on your soap-box slippers,
Atlas is shrugging,
no, listen--the blogosphere whispers
secrets to his growing ego,

"We are 6 billion nations, protected by God.
We go where you go,
so march on,"
and on,
and on.

11/21/2007

Author's Note: Rewritten since this was posted. See "Lest We Forget."

Posted on 11/21/2007
Copyright © 2024 Matthew Zangen

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