Comments | madmoisellestar: America is America to me.

madmoisellestar

America is America to me.

Nov 05, 2008 11:14

O, let my land be a land where Liberty
Is crowned with no false patriotic wreath,
But opportunity is real, and life is free,
Equality is in the air we breathe.

Langston Huges, I think, might well have meant today.

( Let America be America Again )

politics, poetry

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madmoisellestar November 5 2008, 16:57:18 UTC

I really wish I'd been in DC last night.

evergleam83 November 5 2008, 16:45:56 UTC

And yet I swear this oath--
America will be!

OH LANGSTON HUGHES I LOVE YOU SO MUCH.

ASTER!!!

madmoisellestar November 5 2008, 16:56:09 UTC

Here, wanna tear up?

evergleam83 November 5 2008, 17:22:43 UTC

AHHHHH! NO MORE CRYING! I HAVE NO MORE TEARS, ASTER!

Happy New Year andesmusings November 5 2008, 22:20:31 UTC

January 20, 2009---Inauguration Day--My guess is I am coming down to visit you, yes? and party in DC ( ... )

also... woodspider November 5 2008, 23:21:33 UTC

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