<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=392196" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>America under the Boardwalk</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The boardwalk quivers, carousel lights go out<br>Jesus in sand guarded by the devout<br>Summer crowds jostle by the ocean side<br>Kids scream for tickets to the carnival ride<br>Young men hustling their blonde-haired prizes<br>Seniors try on new ages and sizes<br>Tongues pierced, arms and buttocks tattooed<br>With the first names of dreams that were never pursued<br>Every spirit hungry for something to eat<br>Ghosts, clapboard houses lining the street</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Have your name engraved on a small silver cross<br>For a country whose prophets are more than its loss.<br>Have your name inscribed on a small rice grain.<br>The old wild America will be rising again.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It lingers like incense, ducking for cover<br>It will not be censored like the words of a lover<br>Hiding under the boardwalk, waiting out summer nights<br>Chewing funnel cake, taffy in faint autumn light<br>Until soldiers come home, hang up leather boots<br>Its untamed spirit will water the roots<br>Of a tree that the war has left shaken and hollow <br>No fences protecting, no leaders to follow<br>What they thought to command will reward them with pain<br>Until old wild America rises again.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Have your name engraved on a small silver dime<br>In a land where the future cannot tell the time.<br>Have your name inscribed on a cold marble stone.<br>Until old wild America carries you home.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Frank+Bana">Frank Bana</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=392196" data-title="America under the Boardwalk de Frank Bana" data-description="The boardwalk quivers, carousel lights go out Jesus in sand guarded by the devout Summer crowds jostle by the ocean side Kids scream for tickets to the carnival ride Young men hustling their blonde-haired prizes Seniors try on new ages and sizes T..."></div> </div> </div>

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