I wrote this for Junior Miss (now Distinguished Young Women) three years ago.
Yes, I was one of those girls and NO, it is not a beauty pageant.
Enjoy.
America, land of opportunity
Equal Rights, life, liberty, happiness
Public schooling, Social Security
Freedom of speech, equal vote, all of us
Citizens search for new technology
advances in science and medicine
want money, power in democracy
search for answers in our urbanized din
Key to equal education found in
personal laptops! Mass produced shots for
single strand virus, rapid, mutating
Oh No! Hurry – found new virus – need cure!
Back to the grindstone, work, need more money
Study; perform tests. Who needs knowledge? Me!
Green Earth! Recycle plastic, paper, glass!
leave the chemical stuff in the landfill.
Need money? Change currency, it’s now trash!
Solved debt! Space trips got more money to kill!
Big business spends money to get their vote,
Promote candidate to get them, oops Us,
more money. Non- profits get grants, help buy coats.
Business buys vote, poor get money, not just dust.
Foreign policies work, countries eager
to ship goods through, on to Canada too!
we’re such friends, plus our coffers are meager
we’d rent State police, shut roads for them too!
America, land of opportunity!
Make a difference! Be all that you can be!
