America Revisited Poem by Eric Cockrell
America Revisited
put down your crack bowls
and your republican flags...
and let's go walking thru
the streets and alleys of America....
let's walk past the empty houses
with foreclosure signs in the yard...
past the vacant factory buildings
where the homeless break in
at night and sleep...
past the lily white churches
and the dead zone schools...
past the county jails and the courthouses
and the rooms where lawyers
buy and sell justice...
past the housing projects
where babies buy groceries...
down to the tent cities where
dreams hang in the air like opium.
down the dark streets where young
girls and boys sell their bodies
for their vampire pimps...
and everyday citizens buy them!
down to the unemployment offices
where angry people stand in
numbered lines...
past renegade gas pumps
guarded by dollar store slaves...
past the words of Jefferson, Franklin,
and Thomas Paine....
to the hypnotic ads of puffy-faced
liars with titles and plans...
down to the cemetary where
the last shreds of freedom
lie in unmarked graves....
and we call this....
America!
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5/4/2024 5:27:18 PM # 1.0.0.1119
This is what Walt Whitman would be writing in American if he were alive today. This is exceptional poetry of true insight into needs of a nation awaiting true inspired leadership again. Luckily Whitman is not alive to witness these problems. Somewhere in America a group of real patriotic Americans need to forget partisan politics and actually unite to formulate solutions for the nation they claim to serve. To call the truth unpatriotic reminds of a scripture 'Do not be calling evil good.' Homeland security appears to have stripped the American public of many rights and the ability to fight back. Once Americans were eager to fight for their freedom and rights. The Arab Spring has shown the world that dictatorships and governments which neglect the needs of their people cannot survive. To confront policies which are oppressive is not unpatriotic. to protest in peace at the risk of freedom and life among the greatest calling and human sacrifice possible. Thank you Eric for addressing issues of need in America, may others embrace the meaning and responsibility behind your verse, and rise to the challenge of achieving solutions.