I Am
star spangled in
tattered flag
a sun baked dream
just as beautiful and gracious as the others
though a slandered hand I’ve seen
I am ragtime attempting to alter the anthem of complacency
a fabled boy blue trumpeting for the pie stuffed melted pot
America she claims to be.
© Demitri Tyler
Excerpt from the book “Unleashed”
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