When America?

America,
when did you stop
picking up potential
hitch hiking Buddhas
at the side of your
pure prose pasture
scenic inspiration
mountain majestic
dharma wind carrying roads?
Did you decide after Kerouac's
bloody purge and death,
your tired feet had had enough?

When did your
scholars and prophets
become standard
institutionalized
mad house specimens
of spectral studies?
Did Ginsberg and his
c_ck-crazy rantings
drive you to this?

America,
when did you decide
to automatically perpetuate
Ford's legacy
and at once
ignore and become
Huxley's prophecy?

When did you decide to
preach ego gospel?

When did you adopt
Industry's passive-
aggressive dictatorial
playbook?
and when did your order
become the Brave New World reich?

When did our streets become
paved padlock paddocks of
spiritual illusion internment?
When did our politicians
become
market masters devoted to
stroke and sedate?
when did we, the citizenry
become broken house-fed
dependent docile cur?

poem by Gregory Allen Uhan
Submitted by Poetry Lover
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