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Thursday, April 28, 2005
What Constitutes a State?
Capitals, yo: the little
red star slapped flat
on the map.
Bring a magnifying glass,
a microscope,
and you'll see the golden
statehouse dome winking
under your gaze,
the flag aloft with symbols.
Like these: shield, staff,
star, koala,
defeated indigenous man.
Get out your X-ray vision:
see the little
critters there with bills?
Papers flappety-flapping,
ideas
getting tossed and trashed
and then zoom out until you
are beside
the interstate, just you
and billboards and cows.
Smell that
alfalfa air. Sweet timothy.
Take this, legislation,
Take this,
golden dome, surveyor's line.
I'm your citizen akimbo,
incognito,
crossing every state of mind.
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