Found scrawled on a torn paper cup blowing through the Square, by the gates of the Yard
Where the old and the young bide their time in games of Granite
And Plastic concentration
From the Styrofoam Lip of the Cup to the Round Cap dregs
Amerigo Vespucci by Wikipedia
At the bottom of the coiled and ever-widening Stain:
Named after a charlatan and a pimp, weak and dissolute with Age
Her Face Paint running in the politically-charged heat
Down her sunken and disease-stricken cheeks
Poor poor Ameriga (it can be said, The People say) has now fallen to a State
At one with her obscure and inglorious etymology.
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