AMERICAN REQUIEM: Lament for a Fallen Nation

	What requiem should be intoned
	for a colossus with ossified bones?

	Perhaps silence is the best soliloquy
	for a behemoth prone to depravity

	Are tears for fading empires warranted –
	or will body bags suffice?

	If systems focus solely on short-term profit
	is the market bell the only meaningful chime?


Sam:    (shaking his head) Dang! This is too wimpy!

Terri:  Yeah, America zzz alive! Why duh requiem?

Tim:    Kuz in many ways it's dying . . .

Ted:    Isn't the American empire at its zenith? Militarily, it seems unmatched & 
        it has much ah the world's wealth.
        
Chris:  The shape of the average American belly is a good metaphor for the 
        nation as a whole: there's a lot of overstretch 'n lard. Consumption 
        is out of balance with production. And in the long run, that's not sustainable.
        
Tim:    There is a physics to the rise and fall of all nations. At this point 
        in time America is on the way down. Some of its concepts were noble, 
        but in many ways, most civilizations are too short-sighted and self-destructive.
        

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from _AmeriSong: Poetry, Art, & Dialogs about Amerika_ by T Newfields
SUMMARY:  A lament about the demise of American greatness and discussion about 
          the rise and fall of empires.
KEYWORDS:  American overstretch, political poetry, imperial America

Author: T Newfields [Nitta Hirou / Huáng Yuèwǔ] (b. 1955)
Begun: 2002 in Nagoya, Japan / Finished: 2024 in Shizuoka, Japan
Creative Commons License: Attribution. {{CC-BY-4.0}} Granted

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