What to thinking Americans is this
Holiday of our state’s independence
The ironies at this time are adrift
Pointing out avarice’s impudence
I wish that people would read histories
By our pasts’ repressed & hidden subjects
Then today there’d be fewer mysteries
To a more just & fair future construct
But our history’s been corporatized
Expressing only moments of triumph
Therefore justice warriors are resized
So not to diminish marketing’s “UMPH!”
Today there’s a frightened American
Who thinks only might makes us “great again”
