Preparing for Unity

Someday, the United States will be a unified nation - with all our diversity brought together in a glorious blend. Here's my prediction for the pledge of allegiance the kids will be saying in the new, merged schools.

I pledge allegiance to compassion.
Hallowed be thy flag by the dawn's early light,
which so tolerantly we hailed.
Thy kingdom shall come a-Wassailing
Thy will call for tickets for which it stands
in the United States of America as it is on earth.
Grant us the serendipity to accept the spare change
at the twilight's last gleaming,
courage to kick the can down the road
and wise guys to show deference.
Give us this day our daily news
and forgive us. No trespassing,
as we forgive those trespassers who will be shot,
and lead us not into the republic for which it stands
o'er the ramparts we watched.
But deliver our daily bread, so gallantly streaming
to a creature not stirring, not even a mouse.
Let them eat cake.
Now, Mrs. Dash's! now, so you think you can Dancer!
On Donner Party and Blitzkrieg
o'er the canned of the free and the home of the rave.
Workers of the world, unite.
under god as you conceive him, her, it or them,
For thine is the kingdom, the power, indivisible,
and the glory is worth two in a bush,
and visions of sugar-plums dance in our heads
with no justice, no peace for all.
But I heard him exclaim, ere he drove out of sight,
Carpe diem! Good-night and good luck
Forever. Amen. Baba Booey.


Copyright 2010 Donald L. McIntyre