America
We’re good on paper
But don’t deliver the goods
We swallowed the hype
Got lost in the woods
Don’t love our neighbors
Mistrust them instead
They’re a little too blue
or a little too red
So, let’s disagree with
whatever they said
“They don’t really look
American to me”
We can’t seem to get
beyond what we see
Be it color
or religion
or ethnicity
We get lost in the hateful
Shit that we read
And we share all the garbage
That displays on our feed
and the news
that we choose
isn’t news at all
Just a place to trawl and brawl
Then scrawl on our wall
We set up our camps
are told to pick sides
It widens the gaps and deepens divides
We no longer talk with each other
We talk at each other
We’re in a constant state of agitate
arguing is now our default setting
So easily triggered and never forgetting
We don’t live and let live
or live to forgive
We’re an angry flock of bots
Always bratty, catty, and taking cheap shots
Always posting and boasting
and political roasting
We’re walking-talking bumper stickers
We’re cheap and shallow politickers
Our house is burning
Our ship is sinking
we’ve got no solutions
just meme-based thinking
We’re a promise broken
A useless token
A hatred spoken
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