America’s Birthday, 2020
A Poem for A Troubled, Paradoxical Land Full Of Pain and Potential
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3 min readJul 4, 2020
America was, is and may forever be:
A living paradox.
A land where…
… backyard barbecues bring neighbors and friends together
to commiserate and maybe, for a little bit, to celebrate
the nation they live in, or were born in,
a nation…