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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 06:07 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
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| 07 Mar 2013 06:07 PM |
"equality, and moral justice."
i laughed here |
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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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| 07 Mar 2013 06:12 PM |
" the pursuit of happiness, equality, and moral justice"
I had to laugh here...
-Imagination- |
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| 07 Mar 2013 06:12 PM |
| You copied what skellor said 0/10 |
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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
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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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| 07 Mar 2013 06:13 PM |
Agreed.
#~UNACCEPTABLE!!!!!!!!!!! Lemongrab!~ |
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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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| 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
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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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| 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
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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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| 07 Mar 2013 06:20 PM |
Hey man
conform
or rebel
the choice
is
American |
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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
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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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| 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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| 07 Mar 2013 06:24 PM |
@OP
You forgot about cheeseburgers.
~And, as always, Have a Nice Day!~ |
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