America

If we were really to sit back
take a deep breath
remove ipod nubs from ears
set laptop aside
put book down
silence cellphone
turn TV off
remove sunglasses
rub eyes..
and look - reeeally look
at the U.S.
I mean reeeeeaally look at it....
Look at it.
You have all these people groups
(picture a highschool caf - picture a University caf) ...
and they like to dwell amongst their own kinds (picture Chinatowns)
I live in a place called Spanish Harlem

Mexicans in summer like to sit out together and play bongos singing

Then you have the MILITARY

THE ARMY

(picture those bombs blasting Bagdad to bits on TV)

Then you have the Media
people getting paid to work deep into the night to print sheets of papers which people take in hand and gaze on

symbols which form pictures in their heads - pictures of Tanks and Hummers and Explosions

then they go to there workplaces and time to time converse about what they read - or saw on TV or on the net

and work to make MONEY $$$... $

and the more money people have the happier and healthier they tend to be

tho there are cases of people like making money their god and going psycho

anyway look at America
it's like a huge engine
fueled by the sweat of all these workers

and protected by the military

and how many neighbors talk to their neighbors these days

let alone love them

just.. talk..

I hardly ever talk to mine..

Most of them are Mexican..

I like Mexicans

they don't seem all that keen on batting around a topic though

or if I'm in Chinatown - same vibe many times

focus seems set like a laser beam on 'making money' to keep the body functioning
functioning in the juggernaut that is the USA

The most powerful country in the world.