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The Great American Eagle, which at one time
was the greatest eagle in the world,
the magnificent bird who soared
over San Fran Bay and the Golden Gate Bridge,
Caesar’s Palace and The Chicken Ranch,
Carlsbad Caverns and purple mountain’s majesty,
Motown, Steel City, Mad City, Chi-town,
the Grande Ole Opry, Appalachia, the Smokies
and the Blue Ridge Mountains, the Liberty Bell
the Pentagon, the Washington Monument,
the Jersey Turnpike, Indian Point Nuclear Power Station,
the World Trade Center Towers, and the Statue of Liberty
– yes, that same bad-assed symbol of Truth,
Justice and the American Way
with a beak of US Steel forged in Pittsburgh furnaces fueled
by Montana, Pennsylvania and West Virginia coal
and with talons of genuine, Union-by-God,
MADE IN USA, titanium alloy -
The Great American Eagle, which at one time
was the greatest eagle in the world,
that same Great American Eagle who stretched
his wings and tail-feathers
across my Dear Old Daddy’s United States Air Force
dress blue hat and perched boldly atop the flagpole
in my first grade classroom his claws full of laurel
and arrows looking proud as President Ike
and fierce as the MGM lion,
as we pledged allegiance to the flag
when it was still politically correct
to say “one nation, under God,”
The Great American Eagle, which at one time
was the greatest eagle in the world,
that World renown symbol of Liberty, Freedom and Power -
the incredible creature who used to soar on high with the highest,
strike fear into the hearts of our enemies
and pride into the hearts of us patriots,
is now laid low, limping and gimping,
waylaid by special interest groups, greed, political corruption
Big Business, Anti-Anti Trust, Deregulation and the Hoo-Doo Voodo
of the Great and Mighty Spin Doctors of Proliferated Propaganda.
That once Big Bird is unemployed, crouching pensive, feathers wilted
in a tattered, cardboard refrigerator box
under the Fort Pitt bridge when he’s not
crawling the ghettos and looking for a scrap of
a wasted Big Mac with congealed fries,
fly-blown burritos with fake frioles
or some left-over,
not-too-moldy, egg foo yung with rice
in the dumpsters behind Mickey D’s
Taco Bells and the Chinese take-out joints,
pondering why we ever allowed
NAFTA and the myriad other New Age scams
of the Sinfully Rich to become reality…
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