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Thursday, 02 July 2015

My America

By Clifford Rothband

Why're we here
Was it a dire situation
Is it a yearning desire
What do we require
To look for a hire
Never to be a liar
And Yet to perspire
Try to never fall into a mire
Never to call a stranger Sire
It's like a tight wire
Oh how I sometimes tire,
Yet to live in America,
That's my desire.


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Comments

I like this Clifford..it sometimes seems that we, as Americans, are so misunderstood when abroad.
Wetend to br so very nationalistic and say there isn't any better place to live , yet every person in every country I've been to feels the exact same thing.

It IS a tight wire!
hugs and thanks for your poetry
elle hayes

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