American Proud
1 min readMar 15, 2023
Cadillacs with gnashing hoods eat Fiats whole for breakfast.
Motel 6 stories rises like skyscrapers over squat bleak houses.
A few states engulf the continent, cities consume countries.
Wrote over a hundred poems, some long ones too
And my walkman’s more than 200 smackerolas.
Of course it ain’t American what kind of consumer ya think I am?
That’s ten months to you and almost seven years for you dog.
Course I’m smilin’. I come from the land of the free
And home…