put down your crack bowls <br /> and your republican flags... <br /> and let's go walking thru <br /> the streets and alleys of America.... <br /> <br /> let's walk past the empty houses <br /> with foreclosure signs in the yard... <br /> past the vacant factory buildings <br /> where the homeless break in <br /> at night and sleep... <br /> <br /> past the lily white churches <br /> and the dead zone schools... <br />past the county jails and the courthouses <br /> and the rooms where lawyers <br /> buy and sell justice... <br /> <br /> past the housing projects <br /> where babies buy groceries... <br />down to the tent cities where <br /> dreams hang in the air like opium. <br /> <br /> down the dark streets where young <br /> girls and boys sell their bodies <br /> for their vampire pimps... <br /> and everyday citizens buy them! <br /> <br /> down to the unemployment offices <br /> where angry people stand in <br /> numbered lines... <br />past renegade gas pumps <br /> guarded by dollar store slaves... <br /> <br /> past the words of Jefferson, Franklin, <br /> and Thomas Paine.... <br />to the hypnotic ads of puffy-faced <br /> liars with titles and plans... <br /> <br /> down to the cemetary where <br /> the last shreds of freedom <br /> lie in unmarked graves.... <br /> and we call this.... <br /> <br /> America!<br /><br />Eric Cockrell<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/america-revisited/
