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This is a straightforwardly
patriotic poem.

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It's called "Pledge
of Allegiance."

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"In a room full of books, there
is nothing I want to read.

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I'm a true American.

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Glut makes me hungry.

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I feed the fire another log.

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Lightning on its one leg
thumps across the fields.

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I should never have
given myself this power.

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Also, I'm tired of
accusing myself,

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tired of flaring through
doorways like an exploding dog.

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When light is on the
water, I bite water.

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I want to lick anything cold.

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I want to rest my
nose on a stone.

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So I walk into the
war every morning,

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as a man enters an elevator.

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I rise like the red
spine of a thermometer.

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We bomb them again and again.

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I wake from a long sleep,
going the long way home

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around a nightmare.

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I wake up waiting for dusk.

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I want to watch the
Holsteins coming in,

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and the Amish couples.

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This is my country.

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Please don't ask me
to kill you for it."

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