It’s the Fourth of July, time to break
out the barbecue and ice chests
If in a beach city like Newport
Beach or Huntington Beach fearing arrest
Streets are clogged, patios filled
with drinking two legged sardines
Chugging cool ones or strolling by
looking at the thong dressed scene
Massive police presence, streets
blocked, traffic at a slow crawl
Youth on the move, on the
companionship trawl
Beach residents almost under house
arrest
No problem as long as enough beer to
fill the ice chests
In this all out party to the max
Wonder how many celebrants have a
chance to ponder as into the cooler another six pack
Of the incredible gamble the founding
fathers took
To pull the tail of the English lion
to face hanging as crooks
To declare independence from the
English lords
Facing hanging as their reward
The most powerful fleet of ships of
the line
An army with combat skills so well
refined
But pull they did. at places like
Saratoga and Trenton, again and again
Until for the English it became a
question of not if but rather when
No wonder at Yorktown when
Cornwallis surrendered boxed in by the French fleet
The band
played “The world turned upside down” to commemorate his humiliating defeat
Brave men
and women who for five years bitter hardships endured
Sacrifices
at Valley Forge to survival of the army insure
Cheer “Go
USA” and salute and wave the flag on our birthday
But so in
a way to honor the sacrifices of those who fought to make sure this celebration
came into play
© Michael P. Ridley the
Alaskanpoet
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