America Strong

"The future of a country is in the collective subconscious
 of the people of that nation."
-Joseph Murphy

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Go ahead, America -

Stop working

Stop Living

Cower behind closed doors

Fold like a cheap suit.

Because God forbid you get the sniffles

Or suffer in any way, Ever

Or be expected to soldier through anything

Like The Depression

WWII

9/11

Thankfully, all we have to contend with 

is a bug.

Not Leprosy,

Not AIDS,

a flu bug.

But we've opted to supersize it with a side of financial failure.

There have been bugs for thousands of years

But we're responding to this one

Like a woman portrayed in the 1950's

Standing on a chair screaming, "eek!"

As a little spider looks up from below.

I had the flu a couple of years ago.

No one panicked.

No one went scrambling for a vaccine.

The Nation was not called to pray.

Ya know what I did?

I stayed home for three days

and watched a Golden Girls marathon.

That cured me.

The only crisis is the one we are creating.

This is not a crisis.

This is business as usual.

And if we'd find our backbone (with a side of Common Sense)

And treat it like the latter

Instead of the former

We'd come through on the other side,

As we always have,

America Strong.

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"Be watchful, 

Strengthen the things which remain that are ready to die."

-Revelation 3:2