America is a Gun
England is a cup of tea.
France, a wheel of ripened brie.
Greece, a short, squat olive tree.
America is a gun.
Brazil is a football on the sand.
Argentina, Maradona’s hand.
Germany, a oompah band.
America is a gun.
Holland is a wooden shoe.
Hungary, a goulash stew.
Australia, a kangaroo.
America is a gun.
Japan is a thermal spring.
Scotland is a highland fling.
oh, better to be anything
than America as a gun.
by Brian Bilston
Sad but seems true.
What happened to good ole Apple Pie?
Sigh.
This resonates differently now. I love the simplicity, directness and poignancy of this poem. Now though I feel as though American is an atom bomb.