american arrogance

We are conditioned, oppressed, depressed, and accessed

Excused, confused, and intrusive

We are proud, rude, and cruel/lewd even

We choose capitalism as a spiritual tool

We are corporate, ignorant, combative, consumers

Sometimes humorous

We are intimidators and interrogators

We are litigious and imperialists

We exploit our young and discard our old

We convince ourselves we are just

Just because we are Americans/but

We are leaders, teachers, students, and philosophers

We are believers, volunteers, dreamers, and achievers

We are mathematicians, astronauts, and iconoclasts

We are Americans/artists and activists

We are alive and free, walking lightly

We are the created imitating the creator

We are survivors lost and slaves paid for with a cost

We are abusers and users mistrusted for

corruption and consumption

Who can believe an American?

Will repentance reap grief from decadent soil?

Who is to blame for a tarnished name?

Only an American knows which side the green grass grows