AUGUST SMITH - "Hello, Young America"

from The Real-World Problems We Face by 90s Meg Ryan

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lyrics

– Hello, Young America –

My name is August Smith,
established poet,
teen heart murmur,
friend to small animals,
presidentially pardoned,
here to assure you
that I am both extremely strong
and very cool.
My smile: hotly debated
on various gossip blogs.
My personality:
up twelve points
on the NASDAQ.
My patriotism: convenient
and my friends: wealthy.

Like you, I am motivated by
good intentions
and have
strong morals.

And after a long day
of writing
and editing
difficult poems,
there’s nothing I like more
to recharge my mind and body
than a toasty, delicious
Quiznos® sub sandwich, with
the perfect balance of exceptional ingredients,
low prices, high volume, fresh mindset,
progressive politics, youthful appeal,
essential nutrients, and high-quality
hearth-borne hand-ground multigrain bread,
ideal for lunch, dinner,
or god help me
breakfast.
You’re good enough for this sandwich,
Young America. You’re worthy
of this smile that winks and twitches
through the airwaves.
I will follow you like a twice-branded puppy
through the doorways of your home,
feed you this sandwich
while you lounge,
beset by soft lights,
enclosed by inoffensive music,
supine upon a gently warping water bed
upon which not a single crumb will fall.

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AUGUST SMITH is a franchised fast-food restaurant brand based in Denver, Colorado, who specializes in offering toasted submarine sandwiches. He runs Cool Skull Press and attends University of Massachusetts Boston.

www.august.mostlymidwest.com

Music: excerpt of “Dream Array (Movement II)” by Kyle Landstra
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