AMERICA INSTITUTION by Nicole Terry the elephant man a holocaust child a bleeding nazi a strait jacket with a (1963) President in it a woman who doesn’t want to die a 19 year old boy with his father’s gun who realized too late he made a mistake an american flag, with an assassin in it an artist behind bars madness spreading dying an american flag with a klansman in it a poem aching to be heard a broken lighthouse and the boat that forgot rain tears and frozen bells too many words not enough silence dying madness a strait jacket with a (1968) Senator in it a man killing an elephant a grown-up in her personal holocaust a still bleeding nazi madness tears dying rain madness frozen bells dying a strait jacket with a black King in it rain an american flag with an american flag dying and the voices that follow in it tears a strait jacket with a Little Rock Governor being burned by an american flag in it frozen bells an american flag with an american in it madness or tears or rain or dying or frozen (liberty) bells or freedom? © Copyright 2008 Nicole Terry ALL RIGHTS RESERVED   [back to Poems] [Sensual Poetry]