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A suddenness within


I know you care for me America
but I feel a suddenness within,
a type of hysteria that makes me begin
to think quite clearly this time,
to evaluate not congratulate out of hand.

I saw a person standing on the street,
shivering and unkempt, but delicate on his feet.
I wondered in a country so opulent in wealth
how was this to be possible,
it kept me up all night from sleep.

What is it about the wealthiest place on Earth.
All that machinery to conquer
and yet no place for their own to be warm
and sleep securely at night?

That is a question I pose as I myself doze
here in the brilliance of a safe environment
you have not yet plundered or thought to invade.

November 6th, 2014
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