America is only an ideal.
America (like most things) is not real.
America is not a force for good.
America's a bombed-out neighborhood.
America's its own Achilles heel.
America has many wounds to heal;
America does little that it should.
America, my home, my native land;
America, of opportunity;
America, the settlers' demand:
America, from sea to shining sea.
America, so hard to understand;
America, harder, somehow, to be.
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