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Pax America

by Nadeem Rahman
ONE can never write too much about America.
where truth is stranger than fiction". Because America belongs to no one. non-native Americans are no less the children of as many motherlands as ethnicity will permit. The umbilical cord of their origins continually infuses America within a bloodline of global citizenship. The brain drain brings with it not only the elite of alien intellect.' but also an admixture of a verity of colour and custom so vital to the philosophy of American statehood. Thus America's responsibilities as surrogate mother, extend far beyond her shores and America's heartbeat is felt-in the remotest hamlet of the Old World.
< However incredulous and in * spite of itself, one might consider "the American dream" modern history's success story.
, • whose faithful share a common y dogma, capitalism. And a blind worship of something as intangible as God. freedom. This . simplistic definition of the American psyche and a grudg-
ing acknowledgment of Its materialistic munificence has induced many ardent America-bashers with only a superficial knowledge of America and Americans, to expound some of the most opinionated commentary on the subject of the United States, without ever setting foot on American soil.
Be that as it may. throughout the face of this planet, the Americanisation of "one world culture" is so compelling, that anti-Americanism is only a natural consequence of Its Insidious success and unrelenting potency. America's pastures are so much greener than almost anywhere else, that even the most dedicated critics of the American way. don't hesitate to Indulge in the fruits of her labour. Everyone wants a slice of the American pie. America is abundance, the proverbial promised land plucked from the pages of The Old Testament and thrust into the forefront of 'a new world order".
America as world leader, has much more to offer than simply
its sphere of intimidation. America within itself is not without blemish, nor is it infallible. Ironically, America's very weaknesses are the secret of her success, strengthening the foundations of a truly American society. No other nation epitomizes more vividly a greater secular diversity than America. Perpetual pluralism is the lifeblood of a perpetual American renaissance America is many hearts divided, a dichotomy of dreams and dilemmas. of post-colonial patriotism and twenty first century centrifugal forces, all emanating from a two hundred year old vision and idealism of extraordinary versatility, yet ultimately inalienably American.
As a single nation. America is larger than life, omnipresent and embracing every man. Therefore, the healing of America's self-inflicted wounds is absolutely essential to international harmony and the community of nations, as much as a world of potential "illegal aliens” will always remain in-
tegral to American destiny, despite her periodic bouts of parochialism and xenophobic self-exile.
Pax America is a poet’s facetious perception of the American milieu:
1. There are two Americas, in everything
and I would sing, God bless America
if 1 knew, which of the two w’as the real tiling, the invisible government notwithstanding, there is a covenant
with the immigrants of hope idealistically transcending Sicilian organised crime and Colombian dope.
2. In America there is adolescent Californian wine, and the seductive sunshine of opportunity, it is a moral crime in America, not to exercise the licence to be free, sometimes
above and beyond the call of all responsibility
3. There are two Americas, one somewhere in the lost will of the American people, where there is still
an America of the founding fathers
and another, of the wonderful opiate of power, in America every small town church steeple soars, to a constellation of Star Wars
poised, to save the unfree, from the ennui of an un-American destiny.
4. America is the best and the worst and everything else.
America is an ethnic sandwich spread
between two deceptively thin slices
of white bread.
America is red and red neck. America is black and wet back. Germanic and Hispanic, a chronic
polyglot of old world and new and much, much more than simply two worlds is America, of Gentile and Jew.
5. America, your adopted children came
across the ocean sea. from England. France and Spain to wounded Knee, from
Little Big Horn to Desert Storm you've come a long way lady, to stake your claim of fortunes and fame with a hedonist's taste of liberty ...
... hated and accused of an outdated Imperialism, taunted and abused with "Yankee go home", America atoned is haunted by the ghosts of those missing in action.
America's road to hell Is paved with a maze of confused Intentions.
6. Under siege
America is not daunted with the spectre of Japanese investors, rather. America is the oyster of the rich and famous with a penchant for the pleasures of the senses
America is every mood the home of gourmet junk food. America is the extrovert's dream come true.
7. While brave and bold Americans
waver over gun control, America
Is a combat zone.
never one to run from danger America is the Lone Ranger.
God’s gift to the weak. America is the indiscreet policeman of peace with a scantimonlous star spangled saber — O America, you incurable do-gooder, are you never fatigued with being everybody's neighbour.
are yop.really Superman,. .
or Just another lamb in wolfs clothing which the world, never fails to misunderstand.
8. America is many things.
the sanctuary of carpetbaggers and kings
but most of all. America is a time-tossed state of mind
that has survived the profound Jealousies of all Its allies and adversaries alike.
for better or for worse America is cursed and blessed to be
every lost tribe's happy hunting ground.
This poem is jrom the au-'tfidr's forthcoming book "Politically Incorrect Poems'