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Made in the USA
Allegations cloud the atmosphere
You work to live, you live to work
I've worked hard.
My hair is soaked in peroxide
painted in bleach
The pale gold wash
Of Iowa fields of wheat
Thrushed in perspiration
My eyes are hastily rimmed
in common kohl
Mined from the mountains
In Georgia mornings of old
Appalachian Cleopatra
My skin is heavily powdered
Like the cocaine
That built Los Angeles
With blood and pain
Capitalism in motion
My gaze was once pure blue
Clear Nebraska skies
Now clouded in shadow
Like the smoke Detroit cries
We're leaking pollution
My hips are sturdy and thick
Iron in blood and will
Like industrial frame
Our structures stand still
Artificial ingenuity
My breasts are generous
Like Thanksgiving day
Exaggerated and fattened
By pilgrims' buffet
Gluttony drives commerce
My lips stained ruby
Like Indian blood
Spilled to color our flag
A taboo unheard of
Secrets wave in the wind
Concentration camps and ghettos
Muddle my veins
Revolution lays in wait
As the bile in my gut
My eyes are blue murder
My lips are red violence
My skin is icy white indifference
I am Patriotism
My form is man-made
Chiseled and adorned
By the NY stock exchange
The bible, sugar and porn
I worked hard
Harder than you ever will
I am fake
I am Saint Pamela Lee
Madonna on the rocks
Sweet Marilyn Magdalene
I am proud
I am American
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