in the great wide open
get in the car
it’s time to check out
what’s happened
to our america
shot to hell & barely
hanging on
her metropolises
on life support
held hostage by ordinary
people who became
ordinary prisoners
on no account of their own
people once promised
life & liberty &
the pursuit of peaceful
neighborhoods
instead left to defend
turf on their own terms
get back in the car
& discover the alternative
in the great wide open
july two thousand twenty-one
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