Oh Americans

(a musical realization of the poem)

oh americans

you and your democracy

I love you

your frontier and hope

racism and liberty

oh please the dark

dark between stars

and dazzle

your people

tears glittering as

shopping carts and twitter

your vegas and space program

oh let’s tell neanderthals

how it all worked out worked out

avocado avocado avocado

allen ginsberg near the watermelons

beyonce zero copula capitalist anthems

millions of you in the corn fields

on the freeway

you have cut down indigenous cherry trees

and balanced in moving boats looking heroic

let me listen to your coltrane alabama

your america decorated gloriously with america

but oh your people

all touching the earth with their feet

the earth touched by american feet

oh american feet

touching our earth

how small these feet

how touched the earth