First Two Lines Are From F. Scott Fitzgerald ... Then Comes Me

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America is the story

of the moon that never rose

America is the story
of the Emperor without clothes

But with 1001 talking heads
and each one, certain that he knows

Why we aren't better,
articulating ever letter

One repeats,  the next is repeatier

sounding authoritative:

that is their metier

as they seduce

your brain

through

the media

  

Unspoken are the words

OH HECK!

then they receive

  a handsome check

 Seemingly intelligent
verbal pecks
segue to 1001
handsome checks

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Footnote

Scott Fitzgerald wrote the first two lines

in a letter to  Marya Mannes. 

I wrote the rest while agonizing
a sleepless Mrs. CarPeo.

The next Fitzgerald page is  here.

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