Thursday, August 8, 2013

Flying to CT

Waking up in Seattle, silently packing.
Over an omlette in Chicago, watching the sun rise.

Clouds are a less expensive, more private, kinder version of a Rorschach test.

Dear tips of the wing, meet my wing tip shoes...

From the sky, Connecticut looks like one giant piece of broccoli.  
On the ground, the trees are a reminder that the place is, indeed, a different one.

The houses, remarkable.
The attitudes, different.
The love, the same.

What is America?

A currency?
A language?
An architecture?
An army?
A feeling?
A judgement?
Freedom?

Are we, by definition, a jumbulia, a melting pot that keeps chanting: "WE TASTE GREAT!"

Does national pride matter?
Or is that too "redneck" for poetry?

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