Americans gaze at the sky
\nOn a hot, muggy 4th of July,
\nWatching fireworks flash
\nAt a flag-waving bash.
\nOthers catch forty winks on the sly. <\/p>\n
July 2014 Update: My original “line five” back when wrote this in 2010 was:<\/p>\n
“A brief respite from life gone awry.”<\/p>\n
But I’ve decided that it’s too depressing, so I changed it to:<\/p>\n
“Some even pretend that they’re high.”<\/p>\n
But a few hours later I changed it yet again to:<\/p>\n
“Others catch forty winks on the sly.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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