The American

The American says
“I am sorry.”
The white American says
“I am so sorry!”
While the white American man says
I am so very sorry!
The Pakistani says
“I hate the American!”
The Canadian says
I secretly hate the American.”
shhhh
My Australian friend says
“we all hate the American.”
He thinks it is cruel
what the white man did
to the natives and the black.
The world conveniently forgets
the tower of London,
and her perpetual evil,
or mother Deutschland
with her third Reich.
Unit 731 of the Japanese Army
and its cruel vivisections
never gets brought up,
just the evil empire.
Oh that I should look
at European history!
At beautiful Wallachia!
and Vlad Tepes?
He solved his nation’s homeless problem
and the issues of early
psych warfare
with a few well placed torches,
and 800 pikes.
I could go on
about inquisitions and pilgrims,
about slavery,
about Africa,
and its horrible wars.
Would the decedents of slavery
be better off had they stayed?
For African slavery still exists.
(I am sad to tell you)
So yes, curse America.
We are flawed,
we are fat,
and you live off our backs.
Insipid and inspired,
and the land of opportunity
we are.