—Umberto Eco
—Umberto Eco
Stupid, you could call it that.
Stupid, but you have no idea
How stupid I would feel
If fifteen years from now I see her
And she says, “Why didn’t it happen between us, stupid?”
Horse kicks tree, farts on dogs, then runs away.
O, let America be America again—
The land that never has been yet—
And yet must be—the land where every man is free.
The land that’s mine—the poor man’s, Indian’s, Negro’s, ME—
Who made America,
Whose sweat and blood, whose faith and pain,
Whose hand at the foundry, whose plow in the rain,
Must bring back our mighty dream again.
Sure, call me any ugly name you choose—
The steel of freedom does not stain.
From those who live like leeches on the people’s lives,
We must take back our land again,
America!
O, yes,
I say it plain,
America never was America to me,
And yet I swear this oath—
America will be!