Never Tell Someone They're Beautiful If They Already Know It.

"What is most curious about America is that no matter what you say about it...
it is always true." O.W.
do you remember how you leapt...
where no profane foot has ever set but I
will remember this hour
till I die:

"Those people have taken advantage of us..."
and the rest of us stood naked in the rain,
a neat line waiting,
not saying anything,

but he barked from an ignorant angry throat,
"Those people have taken advantage;"

Did he speak for himself or for
the rest of the sun bronzed giants?
Portraits of history made stone
pillars to butress lesser acomplishments.

It was want, whose name alone was vulgarity.

rats leave the sinking ship but we...
we didn't leave, so the ship didn't sink,
and that's madness,