Will Evans performs “Manifest Destiny.”
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“When you said you liked her you meant thanks for not fighting. Thanks for silence. You meant the American Dream says you can have anything you want….How do you think we got all this land.”
As the commenters said…”Bravo!”…”this”…”one of the best poems I have heard on this topic.”
I remember once I did pick up a drunk girl at a party. Because noone seemed to care about her. Not her friends. And certainly not the guy she had a crush on, the same guy who supplied her with the liquor. She was virtually passed out. So I picked her up. Carried her to the toilet. Tried to help her to puke it up, and at the same time trying to keep her hair and clothes out of harms way. Didn’t seem to do much good. She started drifting in and out of a passed-out state. So, drunk as… Read more »