This Is America: 5o Pieces

5o pieces ... Kansas City ribs & fireworks on the Fourth of July in the District of Columbia ... Baltimore crabs, in the Inner Harbor ¿ New York basketball, summer heartland baseball & football for all ¿ New Mexico mesas & Arizona desert mountains ... the green thread that runs thru all southern life ¿ the world's largest zoo, in San Diego ¿ what mountain marmots eat ... on Oklahoma sooners & boomers ¿ the worst of freeway traffic ¿ a backyard barbeque party tribute to moms everywhere ¿ the most important political figure you never realized was right in plain sight ¿ America¿s greatest undiscovered stadium ¿ lyrical tributes to `Amarillo by Morning¿ & the Violent Femmes `Waiting on the Bus¿ ¿ the legend & myth of Minnehaha ¿ Ft. Benning on Memorial Day & President¿s Day in the sun ¿ a night on the stoop where Dorothy Day slept ¿ the best of Autumn colors & Thanksgiving feasts ... the Perseid meteor showers, seen from Nevada¿s mountains ¿ a mystical weapon, only Chicago can yield ¿ radio waves out over the prairie ¿ Santa [& more] ¿ from the Tenderloin to West Baltimore ¿ tall tales, poems & true scenes, plus on the road narrative prose ¿ from sea to shining sea

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