ALL AMERICAN

American first
regardless of ancestry
craft or profession
gay or straight
or in between
right wrong or left
regardless of accent
pimp cop or prostitute
poor or rich
bastard or bitch

American first
under imperfection
under conflict
under inequities
under inequalities
but striving
to lessen negatives
to promote positives
to have hope
to be a refuge
to have opportunities

American first
to love and protest
without violence
or expect justice
to protest with hope
that change is possible
that good karma
shall overcome bad
that better days
are always possible
that one can move
from one's environment
to go west or east again


American first
regardless of color
or origin
to know for certain
that ingenuity
and hard work
and perseverance
that accumulations
and a better life
are possibilities
not guaranteed
but possible for many

American first
where technology
where knowledge
where information
is as a great flood
most ubiquitous
demanding imagination
and ingenuity
capital lubricated
to be implemented
to be expanded
everywhere as tools
to be applied
to the betterment
of self and environment

American first
as a place to dream
a hope to overcome
a vision to expand
room for every one
to reach toward
the farthest star
or explore
the deepest depth
or of inner self
or to be the most
of outer self and free

American first
to dream
the American dream
of democracy
from sea to sea
where all in unity
where all humanity
may be the most
that they may be
not limited by church
or government decree