The New America

A poem

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Who has come out unscathed?
Blisters form on top of blisters
as we trudge towards the ever-distancing horizon
Who now travels with a lighter heart?

Not those with young children I assure you,
not those parents who look towards the future
and wonder just how awful will it get for those
we love, for whom we are tasked to leave a…