Status Updates From An American Sunrise

“Advice for Countries, Advanced, Developing and Falling”
A Call and Response

A country is a person
‘A country is a noun, to be bought & sold. I have a deed.’
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Power is dangerous when wielded in the hands of one. It is meant to be shared.
‘I was given this position by cunning, by money, by sex, by family, by God. It belongs to me and no one else.’

i don’t understand poetry all that well but what i do understand is so moving

That first cry opens the earth door.
We join the ancestor road.
With our pack of memories
Slung slack on our backs
We venture into the circle
Of destruction,
Which is the circle
Of creation
And make more--

He steps aside for her, so she can eat.
Then we watch him fill his beak
Walk tenderly to her and kiss her with seed.
The sacred world lifts up its head
To notice--
We are double, triple blessed.