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....................................................yesterday
was Independence Day: someday we will have to call a

Day Interdependence Day: neither sincere nor serious,
I hesitate to engage anything above the level of a
broken bottle for fear of being, in a free state,

misunderstood or investigated: questioned closely, I
would have to admit that the America I love is hardly
in prevalent view so it must be somewhere hiding around

weeds, fencerows, windowboxes, railsidings, and abandoned
roads: hiding around abandoned roads is a good one:
what would you say differentiates the highminded from

the lowdown good-for-nothings: clearly, its a matter
of altitude: but altitude in terms of what:
perhaps, it is representativeness, including the

principles of synopsis, assimilation, concept.....

--from 'Summer Place'; A. R. Ammons (1977)