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cheeser124 is not online. cheeser124
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07 Mar 2013 06:05 PM
We got hamburgers, televisions, cars, the pursuit of happiness, equality, and moral justice.

You know, pretty cool.
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07 Mar 2013 06:06 PM
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ShredasaurusRex is not online. ShredasaurusRex
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07 Mar 2013 06:07 PM
One sun rose on us today, kindled over our shores,
peeking over the Smokies, greeting the faces
of the Great Lakes, spreading a simple truth
across the Great Plains, then charging across the Rockies.
One light, waking up rooftops, under each one, a story
told by our silent gestures moving behind windows.

My face, your face, millions of faces in morning's mirrors,
each one yawning to life, crescendoing into our day:
pencil-yellow school buses, the rhythm of traffic lights,
fruit stands: apples, limes, and oranges arrayed like rainbows
begging our praise. Silver trucks heavy with oil or paper—
bricks or milk, teeming over highways alongside us,
on our way to clean tables, read ledgers, or save lives—
to teach geometry, or ring-up groceries as my mother did
for twenty years, so I could write this poem.

All of us as vital as the one light we move through,
the same light on blackboards with lessons for the day:
equations to solve, history to question, or atoms imagined,
the "I have a dream" we keep dreaming,
or the impossible vocabulary of sorrow that won't explain
the empty desks of twenty children marked absent
today, and forever. Many prayers, but one light
breathing color into stained glass windows,
life into the faces of bronze statues, warmth
onto the steps of our museums and park benches
as mothers watch children slide into the day.

One ground. Our ground, rooting us to every stalk
of corn, every head of wheat sown by sweat
and hands, hands gleaning coal or planting windmills
in deserts and hilltops that keep us warm, hands
digging trenches, routing pipes and cables, hands
as worn as my father's cutting sugarcane
so my brother and I could have books and shoes.

The dust of farms and deserts, cities and plains
mingled by one wind—our breath. Breathe. Hear it
through the day's gorgeous din of honking cabs,
buses launching down avenues, the symphony
of footsteps, guitars, and screeching subways,
the unexpected song bird on your clothes line.

Hear: squeaky playground swings, trains whistling,
or whispers across café tables, Hear: the doors we open
for each other all day, saying: hello, shalom,
buon giorno, howdy, namaste, or buenos días
in the language my mother taught me—in every language
spoken into one wind carrying our lives
without prejudice, as these words break from my lips.

One sky: since the Appalachians and Sierras claimed
their majesty, and the Mississippi and Colorado worked
their way to the sea. Thank the work of our hands:
weaving steel into bridges, finishing one more report
for the boss on time, stitching another wound
or uniform, the first brush stroke on a portrait,
or the last floor on the Freedom Tower
jutting into a sky that yields to our resilience.

One sky, toward which we sometimes lift our eyes
tired from work: some days guessing at the weather
of our lives, some days giving thanks for a love
that loves you back, sometimes praising a mother
who knew how to give, or forgiving a father
who couldn't give what you wanted.

We head home: through the gloss of rain or weight
of snow, or the plum blush of dusk, but always—home,
always under one sky, our sky. And always one moon
like a silent drum tapping on every rooftop
and every window, of one country—all of us—
facing the stars
hope—a new constellation
waiting for us to map it,
waiting for us to name it—together.
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Skellor is not online. Skellor
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07 Mar 2013 06:07 PM
"equality, and moral justice."

i laughed here
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codyxxxxc is not online. codyxxxxc
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07 Mar 2013 06:10 PM
Good joke.
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cheeser124 is not online. cheeser124
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07 Mar 2013 06:11 PM
Hey man, I didn't

That's what makes America great

We're still trying to search for truth in things
To know right from wrong
To eat all kinds of pie
You feel
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Haltuun is not online. Haltuun
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07 Mar 2013 06:11 PM
The land of oppurtunity
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posten3 is not online. posten3
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07 Mar 2013 06:12 PM
" the pursuit of happiness, equality, and moral justice"

I had to laugh here...

-Imagination-
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cheeser124 is not online. cheeser124
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07 Mar 2013 06:12 PM
You copied what skellor said 0/10
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calculator73 is not online. calculator73
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07 Mar 2013 06:12 PM
Unfortunately we have a lot of fatass people around here cuz of mcdonald's
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Skellor is not online. Skellor
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07 Mar 2013 06:13 PM
"We're still trying to search for truth in things
To know right from wrong
To eat all kinds of pie
You feel"

yeah i get it

but were far from equal

and as for morals

that sometimes leads to conservatism which i dont like

now im not saying there should be no morals

but they shouldnt be a dominating factor
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IceKingFinn938 is not online. IceKingFinn938
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07 Mar 2013 06:13 PM
Agreed.

#~UNACCEPTABLE!!!!!!!!!!! Lemongrab!~
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TradeSwag is not online. TradeSwag
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07 Mar 2013 06:13 PM
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ShredasaurusRex is not online. ShredasaurusRex
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07 Mar 2013 06:14 PM
lol i'm just gonna say america sucks without providing any rational flaws or possible solutions to these
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cheeser124 is not online. cheeser124
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07 Mar 2013 06:15 PM
Hey man

morals are good

Being conservative is just one of the many ways to be American
Or being liberal
white
black
red
yellow
orange
christian
muslim
hindu
jew
other guys
we're all american

America
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Skellor is not online. Skellor
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07 Mar 2013 06:16 PM
"morals are good"

personal morals

morals should be a personal driver not a societal driver

'Being conservative is just one of the many ways to be American'

of course
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cheeser124 is not online. cheeser124
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07 Mar 2013 06:17 PM
Hey man

morality is what shapes society

Good or Bad

Changes how people do

What they do

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Skellor is not online. Skellor
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07 Mar 2013 06:19 PM
"morality is what shapes society

Good or Bad

Changes how people do

What they do"

which shouldnt be

people should be able to choose what they want and not be prohibited because society's morals are different
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cheeser124 is not online. cheeser124
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07 Mar 2013 06:20 PM
Hey man

conform

or rebel

the choice

is

American
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Skellor is not online. Skellor
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07 Mar 2013 06:22 PM
"Hey man

conform

or rebel

the choice

is

American"

but sometimes that choice is forbidden and you cant even take it
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Varese is not online. Varese
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07 Mar 2013 06:22 PM
you dont have freedom
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ShredasaurusRex is not online. ShredasaurusRex
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07 Mar 2013 06:22 PM
A society without some kind of set of morals cannot sustain itself
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cheeser124 is not online. cheeser124
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07 Mar 2013 06:23 PM
you can choose

regardless of its forbidden nature

but penalties come

as penalties do

just don't be

a piece

of

poo
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channel7 is not online. channel7
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07 Mar 2013 06:24 PM
@OP

You forgot about cheeseburgers.

~And, as always, Have a Nice Day!~
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