as we fail
the golden test
commentary
becomes the rest

like that pledge of alienation i learned from a college roommate
who himself picked it up while co-editing an independent periodical on the haight-ashbury

“i pledge alienation
to the rag
of the united states of amerika
and to the repugnance
for which it stands
one nation
under guard
reprehensible
with libertarianism
and justification for all”

and just few years later
how even my old-school democrat parents teared up while watching that 1984 republican national convention on tv when lee greenwood first sang his newly-minted anthem

god bless the usa

ahem…

and so now we see the genesis
or rather
yet another rebranding
of this country’s insipid insistence
on the universal exaltation of its own endemic bigotry

to be hitherto identified as exceptionalism

albeit exclusionary in fact
and towit shall forever be…

ok ok
i know
it’s a bit much
yada yada…

Awareness/Organize/Resist

Oo(~_o)y-~