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Pledge of Allegiance

I am the country of myself, liberty and justice
for all, and my country cannot apologize anymore.
When my mother tells me, under allegiance:
Be happy! When you smile happiness is chase you —
her language is a hand she lays on my head.
Time swings by the front of our lives and doesn’t undress itself,
will not bathe itself. You cannot pity a baby for which it cannot stand
one nation, under God. The type of people I am,
300 million times over.
I pledge to the flag just-wet with jet fuel
from the Hubblescope of the United States of America.
Read the news: Protestor dies from fumes of burning flag.
Pistachios undergo spontaneous combustion. The grenade
hand-made from YouTube comments to the Republic
for which it stands, Jurassic Park, under God,
indivisible. Pick one for all. God is 65 million years away.
Looking into a telescope at Earth,
he sees dinosaurs. We stare at Mayan temples
and they are giant loudspeakers.
This poem appeared in Glass: A Journal of Poetry, November 3, 2020, Poets Resist, 2020 Elections Special Feature.

10.09.2026

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