Brown
(Author Note: Can you tell I'm in California?)
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Growing up in Southern California
the sky was always
brown
the smog was comforting
it held the heavens
and God at bay
it was the same brown
crust in Orange County as in
Los Angeles
it had a glorious continuity
the sky was brown
and it reminded me of how
lucky we were to
have cars, factories
and other evidence of
our civilization
I distrust the hypocrisy
of people who long
for blue skies
clean water
and idealistic vegetarianism
if you're willing
to accept the rewards of
modern life in 2004
you better be willing to pay the price
and the price is brown.
The sky is brown
and increasingly the
faces are brown
and the blue-eyed
blue skies sentimentalists
are being forced
into each others' arms
in paranoid reaction
to this invasion of
the dreaded brown.
As a descendent of the browns
who acted as hosts
to those exercising their
manifest destiny, I say
Welcome!
The sky is brown
the earth is brown
the children are brown
the pottery is brown
the smog is brown
the pictures have browned
the cookies are browned
the horned toad is brown
my daughter's girl scout uniform
is brown
"The Browning of America" is White
leather is brown
chocolate is brown
waste is brown
bread is brown
liquor is brown
at least half the world
is brown
earth tones are brown
home is brown
here is brown
the future is brown.
Welcome!
the sky was always
brown
the smog was comforting
it held the heavens
and God at bay
it was the same brown
crust in Orange County as in
Los Angeles
it had a glorious continuity
the sky was brown
and it reminded me of how
lucky we were to
have cars, factories
and other evidence of
our civilization
I distrust the hypocrisy
of people who long
for blue skies
clean water
and idealistic vegetarianism
if you're willing
to accept the rewards of
modern life in 2004
you better be willing to pay the price
and the price is brown.
The sky is brown
and increasingly the
faces are brown
and the blue-eyed
blue skies sentimentalists
are being forced
into each others' arms
in paranoid reaction
to this invasion of
the dreaded brown.
As a descendent of the browns
who acted as hosts
to those exercising their
manifest destiny, I say
Welcome!
The sky is brown
the earth is brown
the children are brown
the pottery is brown
the smog is brown
the pictures have browned
the cookies are browned
the horned toad is brown
my daughter's girl scout uniform
is brown
"The Browning of America" is White
leather is brown
chocolate is brown
waste is brown
bread is brown
liquor is brown
at least half the world
is brown
earth tones are brown
home is brown
here is brown
the future is brown.
Welcome!
