so i am celebrating the fourth
in an all-amerikan way
dark is looming
& i am working
catching up on all my dicking off
busting thru inhibitions & hesitations & procrastination
liberating myself from poverty it’s hoped
watching madcap comedies from years ago
eating ice cream & hot dogs & hamburgers
hanging with family thinking of friends & acquaintences
hearing that distant pop & crack of decorative explosives
fans blowing warm moist air around sport’s-bra clad self
i’d rather be at disneyland or anywhere else
& i’d rather be right here right now
i’m so glad to be from this time & place
even tho’ i think we’re all still barbarians
& this home invented so many things some unacknowledged
borderless existence as norm empowered citizenry as backbone
freaky rugged individualists running madly to & fro
creating & destroying whole worlds o’ things & thoughts
austere ancestors hiding their kinks & bends just like today
founding fraternals setting unintended freedoms in motion
& tho’ the infrastructure’s something creaky & old
pride thrums my heart, swells my mind with potentials still to come
copyright 2007 by Kia Gabrielle McLean
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