We pledge allegiance
to the stripes
and spangled stars
and to the Republic
they stand in for,
indivisible,
mostly,
except for that one time,
and except for now,
and maybe
except for what comes next.
81/365
Poems to Save the World
A version of this poem first appeared on Bluesky. Whispered into the acoustic sensors of the sleeping dreaming android, it prompted the electric sheep to generate one more tomorrow…
