California!
once daughter of America, beautiful bundle of joy
endless destiny
Western fields of Heaven to the sea
then the sea
golden and filled with the sun
never so bright, bursting through all darkness and resting on the land
like dust rests on the furniture, filling all the cracks and groves of
a new daughter for the new country
but daughters grow old and die
California!
dead or killed?
or simply wandered off?
the soul leaving behind a smoggy shell
like the skin of a California snake
and the soul, naked
leaping into the sea
and swimming West
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