Ode to the Historically Totalitarian USA in the Aftermath of Fourth of July 2018

In the USA,

most are

striving

to survive,

to stay alive

or thriving

on those

who are

so striving.

 

In either

case

they have no

base of

information

just

elation  

on their day

of celebration,

ahistorical,

merely

rhetorical,

the annual

ritual

become

habitual:

 

Fourth of July

 

Ignorant

of the

totalitarian

past of the USA,

content to play,

shuffling on feet

beyond a past

so dirty,
so replete
with lies,

the public

merely replies:

 

But ain’t the

watermelon sweet

and the

fireworks perty?