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I am a great American	B
I am almost nationalistic about it	C
I love America like a madness	D
But I am afraid to return to America	E
I'm even afraid to go into the American Express	F
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They are frankensteining Christ in America	E
in their Sunday campaigns	G
They are putting the fear of Christ in America	E
under their tents in their Sunday campaigns	G
They are driving old ladies mad with Christ in America	E
They are televising the gift of healing and the fear of hell	H
in America under their tents in their Sunday	I
campaigns	G
They are leaving their tents and are bringing their Christ	J
to the stadiums of America in their Sunday	I
campaigns	G
They are asking for a full house an all get out	K
for their Christ in the stadiums of America	E
They are getting them in their Sunday and Saturday	L
campaigns	G
They are asking them to come forward and fall on their	M
knees	N
because they are all guilty and they are coming	O
forward	P
in guilt and are falling on their knees weeping their	M
guilt	Q
begging to be saved O Lord O Lord in their Monday	L
Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday	L
and Sunday campaigns	G
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It is a time in which no man is extremely wondrous	D
It is a time in which rock stupidity	L
outsteps the th Column as the sole enemy in America	E
It is a time in which ignorance is a good Ameri cun	B
ignorance is excused only where it is so	R
it is not so in America	E
Man is not guilty Christ is not to be feared	S
I am telling you the American Way is a hideous monster	T
eating Christ making Him into Oreos and Dr Pepper	T
the sacrament of its foul mouth	U
I am telling you the devil is impersonating Christ in America	E
America's educators preachers are the mental dictators	V
of false intelligence they will not allow America	E
to be smart	W
they will only allow death to make America smart	W
Educators communicators are the lackeys of the	E
American Way	I
They enslave the minds of the young	X
and the young are willing slaves but not for long	Y
because who is to doubt the American Way	I
is not the way	I
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The duty of these educators is no different	Z
than the duty of a factory foreman	B
Replica production make all the young think alike	A2
dress alike believe alike do alike	A2
Togetherness this is the American Way	I
The few great educators in America are weak helpless	D
They abide and so uphold the American Way	I
Wars have seen such men they who despised things about them	B2
but did nothing and they are the most dangerous	D
Dangerous because their intelligence is not denied	C2
and so give faith to the young	X
who rightfully believe in their intelligence	D2
Smoke this cigarette doctors smoke this cigarette	E2
and doctors know	R
Educators know but they dare not speak their know	R
The victory that is man is made sad in this fix	F2
Youth can only know the victory of being born	B
all else is stemmed until death be the final victory	L
and a merciful one at that	G2
If America falls it will be the blame of its educators	V
preachers communicators alike	A2
America today is America's greatest threat	E2
We are old when we are young	X
America is always new the world is always new	B
The meaning of the world is birth not death	H2
Growth gone in the wrong direction	B
The true direction grows ever young	X
In this direction what grows grows old	I2
A strange mistake a strange and sad mistake	J2
for it has grown into an old thing	O
while all else around it is new	B
Rockets will not make it any younger	T
And what made America decide to grow	R
I do not know I can only hold it to the strangeness in man	B
And America has grown into the American Way	I
To be young is to be ever purposeful limitless	D
To grow is to know limit purposelessness	D
Each age is a new age	K2
How outrageous it is that something old and sad	L2
from the pre age incorporates each new age	K2
Do I say the Declaration of Independence is old	I2
Yes I say what was good for is not good for	M2
It was right and new to say all men were created equal	N2
because it was a light then	B
But today it is tragic to say it	C
today it should be fact	O2
Man has been on earth a long time	P2
One would think with his mania for growth	Q2
he would by now have outgrown such things as	D
constitutions manifestos codes commandments	D
that he could well live in the world without them	B2
and know instinctively how to live and be	L
for what is being but the facility to love	R2
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Was not that the true goal of growth love	R2
Was not that Christ	J
But man is strange and grows where he will	S2
and chalks it all up to Fate whatever be	L
America rings with such strangeness	D
It has grown into something strange and	T2
the American is good example of this mad growth	Q2
The boy man big baby meat	U2
as though the womb were turned backwards	D
giving birth to an old man	B
The victory that is man does not allow man	B
to top off his empirical achievement with death	H2
The Aztecs did it by yanking out young hearts	D
at the height of their power	T
The Americans are doing it by feeding their young to the	E
Way	I
For it was not the Spaniard who killed the Aztec	V2
but the Aztec who killed the Aztec	V2
Rome is proof Greece is proof all history is proof	W2
Victory does not allow degeneracy	L
It will not be the Communists will kill America	E
no but America itself	X2
The American Way that sad mad process	D
is not run by any one man or organization	B
It is a monster born of itself existing of its self	X2
The men who are employed by this monster	T
are employed unknowingly	L
They reside in the higher echelons of intelligence	D
They are the educators the psychiatrists the ministers	D
the writers the politicians the communicators	D
the rich the entertainment world	Y2
And some follow and sing the Way because they sincerely	L
believe it to be good	Z2
And some believe it holy and become minutemen in it	C
Some are in it simply to be in	B
And most are in it for gold	I2
They do not see the Way as monster	T
They see it as the 'Good Life'	X2
What is the Way	I
The Way was born out of the American Dream a	E
nightmare	M
The state of Americans today compared to the Americans	D
of the th century proves the nightmare	M
Not Franklin not Jefferson who speaks for America today	I
but strange red necked men of industry	L
and the goofs of show business	D
Bizarre Frightening The Mickey Mouse sits on the throne	B
and Hollywood has a vast supply	A3
Could grammar school youth seriously look upon	B
a picture of George Washington and 'Herman Borst'	I
the famous night club comedian together at Valley	L
Forge	B3
Old old and decadent gone the dignity	L
the American sun seems headed for the grave	X2
O that youth might raise it anewl	L
The future depends solely on the young	X
The future is the property of the young	X
What the young know the future will know	R
What they are and do the future will be and do	I
What has been done must not be done again	B
Will the American Way allow this	D
No	R
I see in every American Express	D
and in every army center in Europe	C3
I see the same face the same sound of voice	D
the same clothes the same walk	D3
I see mothers fathers no	R
difference among them	B2
Replicas	D
They not only speak and walk and think alike	A2
they have the same facel	L
What did this monstrous thing	O
What regiments a people so	R
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How strange is nature's play on America	E
Surely were Lincoln alive today	I
he could never be voted President not with his	D
looks	D
Indeed Americans are babies all in the embrace	D
of Mama Way	I
Did not Ike when he visited the American Embassy in	B
Paris a year ago say to the staff 'Everything is fine just drink	E3
Coca Cola and everything will be all right '	-
This is true and is on record	I
Did not American advertising call for TOGETHERNESS	D
not orgiasticly like today's call	L
nor as means to stem violence	D
This is true and is on record	I
Are not the army centers in Europe ghettos	D
They are and O how sad how lost	I
The PX newsstands are filled with comic books	D
The army movies are always Doris Day	I
What makes a people huddle so	R
Why can't they be universal	L