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Sunday, October 11, 2009

Regarding the fact that america’s birth as a nation was a still birth

[11-1-04]

“take what you need and leave the rest, but they never should have taken the very best”
-taken from THE NIGHT THEY DROVE OLD DIXIE DOWN by the band


some say this country’s greatness
was born in the fires of the war
btwn the states………………………….

I say that perhaps, our greatest were taken
From us:
By a tyrannical government,
by the forces of evil,
& because of this fact-our modern nation
was a still birth…...............................

......that miracously lived......................
.........................and lurched forth...and was
then-
furthered and propogated by
offspring of the war btwn the states who were
not “our very best”

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