America Can Never Be America

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America can never be America.
Maybe no nation can ever be America.
Each nation can approach it fervently,
Reaching halfway, then halfway, then halfway.
In approaching dreams, there is no calculus
Calculating how one might finally reach one.
A good thing. Calculus is the death of dreams.

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