Our shared American Dream

Come, come, ride with me on a ferry boat past Ellis Island,

walk with me up the winding staircase inside the Statue of Liberty,

and let us look out her eyes at the "shining sea;"

Ride with me in a train viewing car across our new world

past "purple mountains" in their quiet "majesty"

past wheat fields with prosperous product pushed into neat bales;

smoke ganja and eat pizza with multi-cultural American friends,

savoring the sweet liberty, and suffering the madness...

of our shared American Dream