America’s Birthday, 2020

A Poem for A Troubled, Paradoxical Land Full Of Pain and Potential

Bryan Winchell
Politically Speaking
3 min readJul 4, 2020

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Photo by Elena Mozhvilo on Unsplash

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…

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Bryan Winchell
Politically Speaking

A Serious Fool who writes about: Personal/collective growth, politics, love of Nature/Humanity, Japan, podcasting, humor, and being a hippie in Service to Life.