Map
(after the painting by Jasper Johns)
Disunited states
helter skelter
borderlines—
Show me your land
of enchantment
northstar-bluegrass-hawkeye-
hoosiers in their place
the garden of your empire dreams
Give me your tired your poor
your blue-eyed scientists
the wretched refuse of the moon
Listen to my spangled song
oh, see can you say
mississippi with a drawl
texas with a twang
Oh, sweet disneyland
I see your destiny
In reds yellows blues
unfolding on a map.
Neil Ellman lives and writes in New Jersey. With more than 500 published poems to his credit, his work appears throughout the world, from Australia to Zimbabwe. The latest of his eight chapbooks, Convergence and Conversion, is just out from The Knives Forks and Spoons Press in the United Kingdom.
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