American Backyard

Trivial flaws prepare raspberry bushes 
To divide and divine and disperse
Exposition is the treetops 
Waves of leaves of green

What can be must
When the preposition
Is unprepared to take a position
And therefore fails to turn
At the moment when the grass
Meets the idea of nature
And guards its home from fraud
Into the sky the wildfires burn
There's no bad air
Only insufficient respirators

That's the scene
Call it abstract
Lacking names
James
Madison
Failure

Founders' syndrome
To give Saint Paul
And Washington
A revolutionary due
Call me American
You won't be wrong

As I sit in this rippling oasis
I can't think to pump out my well
And pipe it where the thirsty might drink

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