Sunday, May 27, 2012

Empire


Looking at the Royal Scots Memorial
and wondering –
truly wondering
if only for a moment or two
what it must be like
to live in an Empire

the moment evaporates
        into self-awareness
and I say to myself
aloud “Oh.  That’s right.
I am an American.
I know exactly
        what it’s like
to live in an Empire.”
I hate that part.

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