<html aria-label="message body"><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">I Love America</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">I love America. There. I said it.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">No sparkler. No flyover.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">No Juicy Lucy from Matt’s Bar either,</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">with its molten cheese hiding in the middle </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">to burn anybody who bites in a hurry,</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">which, now that I say it out loud, </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">might be this whole poem in a bun.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">But I can show my work.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">I love the America </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">where my kids leave their bikes collapsed in the backyard grass,</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">front wheels still ticking like they fainted </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">at the news that dinner was ready.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Where three houses down somebody is grilling with purpose,</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">and for one minute the whole block smells</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">like everyone has a dad,</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">and the dad came home,</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">and the dad knows exactly how his babies like their burgers.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">I love standing in line at the Midtown Market where ahead of me</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">a Somali grandmother buys cilantro by the armful,</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">and in front of her</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">a Lutheran grandmother is buying cream-of-mushroom soup by the case.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Two worlds riding in on the same conveyor belt.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">I love the barber in Richfield</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">who pumps the chair down for a foster kid </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">like he’s lowering a throne,</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">snaps the paper collar around his neck like a medal,</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">then tilts his chin toward the mirror and asks, </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“How’s that look, young man?”</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Not because the haircut is finished,</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">but because somebody should ask that boy </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">how he wants to be seen.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">I love lemonade stands run with catastrophic accounting practices,</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">where the CFO is missing both front teeth,</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">the head of marketing is asleep in the grass,</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">and nobody understands the situationship </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">between revenue and inventory.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">I love public libraries </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">where you can walk into a story and out of the rain,</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">and Little League fields where a seven-year-old at second base</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">is building a small civilization in the infield dirt</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">while his parents scream helpful things about focus.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">I love water towers that wear the town’s name </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">with the confidence of LaMelo Ball,</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">despite the town containing one Dairy Queen,</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">two stoplights,</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">and a passive-aggressive schism at the Baptist church off Main</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">over the color of the lobby’s new carpet.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">And there’s more.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">County fairs. </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Butter heads of dairy princesses turning slowly </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">in their refrigerated glass like saints.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">A taxidermied black bear in wraparound sunglasses outside a bait shop up north, guarding the nightcrawlers like he’s been deputized.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">That stretch of 35 just past Albert Lea </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">where the Twins game dissolves into static</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">and the silence goes back to the corn.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">I love America.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">That’s twice, if you’re keeping score,</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">and you are.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">This is America.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Which is why, </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">when I see somebody stand up at a rally to object,</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">one person with one sentence </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">and a voice that cracks a little on the way out,</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">and the crowd answers with "USA! USA! USA!"</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">the way you turn the radio up,</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">my heart does what your foot does in the dark</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">when it comes down for a stair that isn’t there.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Because I recognize that move.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Guys, I have kids.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">That’s fingers in the ears.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">That’s la-la-la, I can’t hear you,</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">except everyone here is a grown adult who drove </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">and will be trusted, later, to merge.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">It’s the geopolitical equivalent of “because I said so.”</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">I know how this looks.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">I just spent half a poem writing this country a love song,</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">and now I’m wincing at what most folks consider the chorus.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">But to be clear, my beef isn’t with the joy.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Cheer for the hockey teams that brought home gold</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">and left their teeth on the ice like a tip.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Cheer for the gymnast who sticks the landing</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">so the rest of us can finally exhale</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">with our completely unearned sense of accomplishment.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">We did it.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">We, on the couch, with the dip.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">We, who have not touched our toes </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">since Blockbuster and Camp Snoopy closed.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">These are all excellent reasons to spill a beer.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">This is perfectly acceptable stadium behavior.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">But stuff a whole country inside that noise</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">and you get a patriotism so weak it needs two locker rooms,</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">one scoreboard,</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">and somebody else’s grief to verify our joy.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">That’s where you lose me.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">When we take the childish architecture of fandom,</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">the face paint, the foam finger, </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">the shirtless guy in January glowing like a ham,</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">and mistake it for citizenship.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Leave that at the game. Shout it with mustard on your chin.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Because there’s already a grammar to that chant:</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">the subject is us,</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">the object is them,</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">and the verb is crush.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">You could diagram it on a napkin.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Just don’t try to conjugate a country that way.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Because a nation is not the Vikings.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">No country could survive that many Januarys.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">A nation is that same backyard three houses down,</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">where the grill’s been cold since Thursday</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">when ICE came for the dad while the morning was still dark.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">A nation is the Marine missing three fingers,</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">pinning a childproof bottle between his knees and using his teeth</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">to open the thing the country prescribed </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">for the pain the country gave.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">A nation is the woman cleaning the stadium</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">after everybody who chanted USA has gone home,</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">on her knees beneath Section 114 </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">collecting our plastic cups and chicken bones</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">and one foam finger still pointing at nothing,</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">for barely enough money to live inside the country</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">we just finished congratulating ourselves for loving.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">She isn’t cleaning up after America.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">She is America.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Because America isn’t a mascot.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">America is a promise.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">And a promise has no visiting team.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">A promise,</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">as anyone who has ever been married,</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">or sober,</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">or forgiven,</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">or forgiven again can tell you,</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">doesn’t become sacred when we make it loud.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">It only becomes sacred when it’s annoying and inconvenient </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">and we decide to keep it anyway.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">It’s a more adult kind of love.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The kind you need the night your child looks you dead in the face and lies.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">You don’t spare the child and defend the lie.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">You don’t spare the lie and lose the child.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">You turn on the kitchen light.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">You pull a stool twelve inches from yours.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">You set what happened on the table,</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">between your pride and your grief,</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">right next to the salt, and you say:</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Nothing you tell me will make you any less mine.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">So go ahead. Tell it all.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In this sweaty, all-caps moment before the moment,</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">I’m tired of us confusing devotion with applause,</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">as though the highest form of love </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">were refusing to notice the blood on the shirt.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">As though pointing at the wound were the wounding.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">As though the doctor is a traitor </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">for holding the X-ray up to the light and saying, “This is infected.”</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">If your love can’t survive a hard diagnosis, it isn’t love.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">It’s public relations.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">I don’t want an America </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">whose feelings I have to protect from the truth.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">I want an America whose promises I have to protect from our fear.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">I don’t want a country I’m forbidden to disappoint.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">I want one I’m obligated to repair,</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">with a borrowed drill and the wrong size screws</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">and my kid holding the flashlight on everything but the problem.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Give me a patriotism that knows how to blush.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">That can stand at a graveyard,</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">or a reservation,</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">or a slave cabin,</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">or a school desk with a name still taped to the corner </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">and nobody coming back to sit in it,</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">and resist that almost narcotic human urge to explain.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">That kind of patriotism that can be an adult and say:</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"Yes. We did this. This is ours too."</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">And then stay.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Give me a patriotism that widens the we one folding chair at a time,</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">until nobody is left standing at the edge of the table</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">watching freedom go cold on everybody else’s plate.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The opposite of loving America is not criticizing it.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The opposite of loving America is needing America to be innocent.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">I don’t need that anymore. I put away those childish things.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">I don’t need a perfect country.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">I need a country capable of confession.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">A country that can look down at its own enormous hands</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">and ask what they have built,</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">what they have broken,</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">who they have held,</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">who they have held under,</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">and how these same hands,</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">still enormous,</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">still trembling,</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">still ours,</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">might reach down</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">and pull somebody out.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">So yes. For the third and final time: I love America.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">How much, you ask?</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Enough to refuse the penny-arcade patriotism</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">that paints its face and pounds its chest</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">and needs an enemy just to find its own pulse.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Enough to want more from it than winning.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Enough to believe the most American sound isn’t USA! USA! USA!</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">but chair legs scraping across a church-basement floor,</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">coats lifted off saved seats,</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">frightened people turning toward frightened people </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">like it’s time to pass the peace, and saying:</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Here.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Sit.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">You belong here too.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 14px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(6, 6, 6); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 14px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- Matt Moberg</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 21.5px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; 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