the real America, Charlie,
is found in Austin, a middle-sized city in Texas,
during South by Southwest.
so, here's your test:
is it music and drink, sex and sin?
if you said yes, you win.
lots of fun and the bands
full of laughter, straights and trans,
eating and dancing and being true to Self,
not a media personality pulled from a shelf.
beards, broads, ladies and gents
doing whatever life foments
while saluting life and liberty.
repeat after me: be free
of hatred and bigotry.
