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Painting the Perfect American Dream
The brush sways on the pallet as it picks which colors are perfect
Touches the canvas
the land in which we call free but stolen
Begins painting with brown to identify our start
Overlay it with white to hide its true color
But we're painting the perfect picture
Brush through the hundred years of labor
AMERICA the land of the free
Blood drips down the canvas
Murders of natives and blacks
Gray and stormy the background sets
Knocked down homes from wildlife to build My home
The home of the brave, running in fear
Last detail, a sign in which states
Your rights are not safe.
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this poem creates the picture of our sad and tragic past.