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America
America, My iphone broke and now I’m nothing
America 2 welfare checks and a bag of crack, July 22 2015
America, when will we restart the war against the terrorists?
America my porn has gotten boring
I want my food fast, not slow
When can I buy mcdonalds with my depressed expressions?
Go feth yourself with your obama care
Put your clothes back on, everyone’s already been there
America, I want to marry a lobster, you don’t mind do you?
America, I still hate muslims and I’m not sorry
My friends a coward, why do you like him better than me?
Why did you let the women loose from sea to shinning sea?
It’s so hard getting a date these days!
America, thank you for my paid vacation to the desert, I felt safer there
America, when will we ban the nazi flag too?
America, why can’t I smoke reefer and they can?
The american flag is just as meaningful for me today as it was in the 90’s
America, I’m sorry I’ll never kill myself for my religion
America, I’m glad christ has left you
America, are you going to let your emotions be run by CNN and fox news?
Bill O’Reilly is a hack
America, I can’t wait to work for China
I read Cosmopolitan everyday, doesn’t that make me brave?
My ambition is to be president, despite the fact that I’m white
America, it’s them bad rich folk, them bad rich folk, them confederates and them bad rich folk
America I’m sick of the Army not killing people
The air force just has too much fun
How much do you think a sex change costs? Could I afford it on welfare?
America, thanks for giving Iran a thousand suns
America, I think the burger flippers should make more money
Spongebob is my hero
Let me think a minute america, poetry is hard
20 cigarettes and 10 energy drinks later
America, when will you get angry that prostitution isn’t taxable
That womans vagina could pay for your text books
I think a woman president would be sexy
Why doesn’t Budweiser sponsor ISIS commercials?
I want an inspirational movie about terrorists
I wonder if terrorist groups trade players
America, take away my gun so I can become a martyr
I don't want to write as much as Allen did, that would take too long.
I'm very important, I have things to do.
My models won't paint themselves.

If this is inappropriate for this forum I sincerely apologize
Based on Allen Ginsberg's "America"

Okay then.... Well that is one way to view the world

Huh... so you think Bill O'Reilly is a hack (which he is) and that CNN and Fox News are bad (which they are) yet you support their views?

I don't support fox news nor any major news station. They skew reality. Bill is apart of a conservative propaganda string.

My views and opinion are my own, and I expressed them in this poem. I don't believe Marxism and Socialism is the right answer.

How am I supposed to read this?

I think this is in the wrong place, would surely be more at home in off-topic? Mods?

Let's claw this thing back on topic then. Here's my own version, it's not called America it's called

Imperium

Imperium I've given you all and now I'm nothing. 
Imperium, two creds and twenty-seven Bolt-shells January 745. M41 
I can't stand my own insignificance. 
Imperium when will we end the great crusade? 
Go feth yourself with your astartes legions. 
I don't feel good don't interigate me. 
I won't fire my lasgun till I'm in my right mind. 
Imperium when will you be Sanguinius? 
When will you take off your power armour? 
When will you look at yourself through Ramandar's Mirror? 
When will you be worthy of your billion souls? 
Imperium why are your librariums full of Psykers? 
Imperium when will you send your legions to Armageddon? 
I'm sick of your Inquisitors' demands. 
When can I go into McGuillimans and buy what I need with my pure genome?
Imperium after all it is you and I who are pure not the Ruinous Powers.
Your Imperator Titan is too much for me. 
You made me want to be a flagailant  
There must be some other way to perpetuate this war. 
Russ is in the eye of terror I don't think he'll come back it's chaos. 
Are you in league with chaos or is this some form of practical joke? 
I'm trying to come to the point. 
I refuse to give up my fanatacism. 
Imperium stop pushing I know how to die. 
Imperium the nurgle-blossoms are pustulating. 
I haven't accessed the newsvids for months, everyday some planet goes on trial for heresy. 
Imperium I feel sentimental about the Squats. 
Imperium I used to be a genestear cultist when I was a kid and I'm not sorry. 
I eat ork-fungus every chance I get. 
I sit in my house for days on end and stare at the skulls in the closet. 
When I go to Commorragh I get drunk and never get laid. 
My mind is made up there's going to be Tau'va. 
You should have seen me reading Lorgar. 
My confessor priest thinks I'm perfectly right. 
I won't say the Libation to the Emperor 
I have warp visions and astropathic vibrations. 
Imperium I still haven't told you what you did to Uncle Fabius after he came over from Chemos.

I'm addressing you. 
Are you going to let our emotional life be run by the franchise? 
I'm obsessed by White Dwarf 
I read backissues every week. 
Its covers stare at me every time I slink past the derelict gaming centre. 
I read it in the basement of the Black Library. 
It's always telling me about our biggest plastic kit ever. Games Workshop higher management are serious. Relic Entertainment are serious. Everybody's serious but me. 
It occurs to me that I am Imperium. 
I am talking to myself again.

Xenos are rising against me. 
I haven't got a gretchin's chance. 
I'd better consider humanities resources. 
My gaming resources consist of two red measuring sticks millions of dice 
an uncompetitive codex that creeps 40,000 miles an hour and 
twentyfivethousand closed down gaming centers. 
I say nothing about my Hive Cities nor the millions of underprivileged who live in my underhives far from the light of five hundred suns. 
I have abolished the pleasure world of Dawnbreak, Breanna is the next to go. 
My ambition is to be Emperor despite the fact that I'm a Ratling.

Imperium how can I write a holy litany in your grimdark mood? 
I will continue like the Emperor my guard armies are as individual as his 
Astartes more so they're all exagerated steriotypes. 
Imperium I will sell you plastic guards 2500creds apiece 500c down on your old metal guards 
Imperium free Cypher 
Imperium save the Kroot Loyalists 
Imperium Alpharius and Omegon must not die 
Imperium I am the Death Guard Legion. 
Imperium when I was seven momma took me to Games Workshop store events
they sold us quality metals a handful per blister
a blister cost your pocket money and the games were free 
everybody was angelic and sentimental about Space Hulk it was all so sincere you have no idea what a good thing Games Workshop was in 1990's
John Blanche was a grand old man a real Games Master 
Goodwin made me cry
 I once saw Bryan Ansell's mullet. Everything was painted red.
 
Imperium you don't really want to go finecast. 
Imperium it's them bad Orks. 
Them Greenskins them Orks and them Tyranids. And them Orks. 
The Tyranids wants to eat us alive. The  hive mind's power mad. She wants to take our genes from out our genome. 
Her wants to grab Terra Her needs a Nid Reaver's Digest. Her wants our forges on Mars

Him Big bureaucracy running our Administratum. 
That no good. Ugh. Him makes Ogryns learn read. Him need big strong Ogryns. 
Hah. Him make us all work twenty six hours a day. Help. 
Imperium this is quite serious. 
Imperium this is the impression I get from looking in the Codex Imperialis. 
Imperium is this correct? 
I'd better get right down to the job. 
It's true I don't want to join the Astartes or turn lathes in precision parts manufactorums.
I'm a warpsighted psycher anyway. 
Imperium I'm putting my tainted shoulder to the wheel.

Lol "I feel sentimental about the squats"
9/10

Glad you dig it. I just toyed with the idea of doing a treatment of Howl like this but after reading the original I'm just backing slowly away with my hands raised in submission. That work is untouchable.

Anyway thanks for bringing some poetry to Dakka. I'm all for it. More verses less Vs.