Poetic Tower
THANKSGIVING
(1956)
e.e.cummings

a monstering horror swallows
this unworld me by you
as the god of our Fathers' Fathers bows
to a which that walks like a who

but the voice-with-a-smile of democracy
announces night & day
"all poor people that want to be free
just trust in the u s a"

suddenly uprose Hungary
and she gave a terrible cry
"no slave's unlife shall murder me
for i will freely die"

she cried so high thermopylae
heard her and marathon
and all premhuman history
and finally the UN

"be quiet hungary and do as you are bid
a good kind bear is angary
we fear for the quo pro quid"

uncle sam shrugs his pretty
pink shoulders you know how
and he twitches a liberal titty
and lisps "i'm busy right now"

so rah-rah-rah democracy
let's all be as thankful as hell
and bury the statue of liberty
(because it begins to smell)


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