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Wishing this poem I wrote for my 2016 book “painted poetry” did not continue to be so relevant....

America

     you want to be

     United

     we fight and tear and bleed

     we are free

     we are not united

     we are not safe

America

    you want to be

    Respected

    we fight and tear and bleed

    you take care of your guns

    you take care of your powerful

    but not the womb which

    produced

    effervescent greatness

    but not the children who

    would have reached

    greatness

America

     We want to be free

     United

~Carrie Able