America Is a Gun
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Author: Brian Bilston
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England is a cup of tea.
France, a wheel of ripened brie.
Greece, a short, squat olive tree.
America is a gun.
Brazil is football on the sand.
Argentina, Maradona's hand.
Germany, an oompah band.
America is a gun.
Holland is a wooden shoe.
Hungary, a goulash stew.
Australia, a kangaroo.
America is a gun.
Japan is a thermal spring.
Scotland is a highland fling.
Oh, better to be anything
than America as a gun.
British poet Brian Bilston has been compared to Don Marquis, Dorothy Parker and Ogden Nash. He has been called "The Poet Laureate of Twitter." His books include You Took the Last Bus Home, Let Sleeping Cats Lie, & And So This Is Christmas: 51 Seasonally Adjusted Poems.