America Needs a Makeover

America needs the brown and the gay America needs the poor and forsake, America needs Muslims and prostitutes The famished mother and her child destitute. America needs transgenders and androgynes America needs the imperfect, forlorn mimes, America needs to diverge from the white-skinned overlords For that is how She was — in the first place — born.
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