Make America Again

By Greg Fuchs and From Brooklyn Rail
Published on June 15, 2017
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Photo by Flickr/7beachbum
"Make America regional international again."

Make America again again
Make America great again
Make America write again
Make America read again
Make America land again
Make America Cherokee again
Make America smart again
Make America black powerful 
Make America progressive again
Make America populist zen
Make America agrarian 
Make America slaveless 
Make America feminist
Make America beat again
Make America jazz again
Make America nazz again
Make America Iroquois again
Make America Paleozoic again
Make America made in America
Make America transcendentalist again
Make America abolitionist again
Make America civil disobedience again
Make America revolutionary again
Make America passive resistance again
Make America peyote button again
Make America geodesic dome again
Make America zome again
Make America roam buffalo again
Make America pop again
Make America leaves of grass
Make America Mexican brass
Make America minstrel wail
Make America utopian tale again
Make America you and me again
Make America rock-n-roll again
Make America fight the power again
Make America democratic again
Make America unpolluted again
Make America organic again
Make America hemp covered again
Make America high again
Make America levitate pentagon again
Flowers in a barrel of a gun again
Make America theosophical again
Make America pro-labor again
Make America less corporate again
Make America kind all the time
Make America rhyme again
Make America place to find again
Make America freedom again
Make America wanna be your bff again
Make America hey ho lets go again
Make America pre-code again
Make America unprisoned again
Make America take care of all again
Make America Sitting Bull again
Make America ghost dance again
Make America sun dance again
Make America earth lodge again
Make America longhouse again
Make America Mexicanity again
Make America seven drum again
Make America bird dark skies again
Make America buffalo roam again
Make America Anazasi again
Make America one who yawns again
Make America fierce Apache again
Make America again again
Make America dymaxion again
Take America to the crossroads again
Make America reinvent itself again
Make America rich again
Make America rich less rich again
Make America poor less poor again
Make America desire equality again
Make America everyone this time again
Make America try, try, try again
Make America think more
Make America work less
Make America less big cheese with keys again
Make America fewer gray flannel suits again
Make America pre-conquest again
Make America pre-Columbian again
Make America cool again
Make America citizens again
Make America holy, holy, holy, holy, holy
Make America regional international again
Make America see like Robert Frank again
Make America heartbeat street river feet
Make America look homeward spectacle
Make America get hip to tree again
Make America just be again
Make America begin again
Make America the source again
Make America reflect again, again
Make America renew deal again
Make America revisit all our pain again 
Make America common sense again
Make America think again
Make America turn hoses off again
Make America grow hard cider everywhere again
Make America conscious
Make America fully present
Make America by any means necessary
Make America exploding volcano again
Make America tectonic breaks again
Make America buffalo home again
Make America bison roam on the range again
Make America great American tome again
Take America on the road again
Make America lack crack of whips again
Make America explore love metaphysical gravity
Make America promote general welfare again
Make America power to the people again
Make America invest in public works again
Make America value teachers again
Make America solve problems creatively again
Make America erase all borders again
Make America prisoners of love again
Make America ballot bullet again
Make America viva la vida
Make America one heart many heads
Make America in mothers daughters we trust
Make America redwood trees again
Make America great rivers meander again
Make America sit down strike again
Make America earth mother tribal leader again
Make America worker owned again
Make America popular democratic
Make America invest mass transit
Make America economic democracy
Make America cooperation again
Make America anarcho-syndicalist 
Make America euro style libertarian
Make America owned by you and me again
Make America peoples’ history again
Make America books again
Make America yippie not yuppie again
Make America red and black transformation
Make America internation again
Make America multicultural again
Make America multilingual again
Make America international feel again
Make America participatory again
Make America symbiogenesis again
Make America minimalist again again again again
Make America collaboration again
Make America simply understood again
Make America complicated enlightenment again
Make America committed to struggle again 
Make America study Wealth of Nations 
Through critique of liberalism & division of labor
Make America crafts people in our own accord again
Make America peer closely into institutional structure
Make America see clearly dark forces again
Make America call out benign selfishness
Make America trust ourselves ask questions
Make America theory in practice again
Make America yogi versus commissar again
Make America rethink killing from a distance
Make America put down its guns
Make America examine all of its wars
Make America win little victories of justice again
Make America children citizenship ready again
Make America sit in the front of the bus again
Make America no cops killing again
Make America boycott corporate tyranny
Make America small business again
Make America anti-war again
Make America all kinds of cooperative again
Make America hair peace bed peace again
Make America imagine being a little like Canada
Make America emphasize humans over property
Make America no gun democracy
Make America remember love again
Make America get it together again
Make America work pleasure again
Make America let it be again
Make America alt left instead of right again
Make America get up off its knees again
Make America help everyone again
Make America think of reparations again
Make America less anxious to eradicate fascists
Make America rainbow colors again
Make America just say yes again
Make America black lives matter
Make America breathe again
Make America we all gonna die again
Make America forget all about it again
Make America again, again 


Greg Fuchs teaches students with disabilities to trust themselves and question everything. He has written scores of poems, published several books, and photographed many people, places, and things. Fuchs is a member of Subpress collective, which has published experimental writing for 20 years. Reprinted from Brooklyn Rail (December/January 2016), a bimonthly publication offering critical perspectives on arts, politics, and culture.

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