We hesitate herein
to emancipate the trick—but now think
it perfectly consonant
to admit—America
gets built
like this—every time an Eagle sings
Take It Easy—
overhead
in falsetto
on a waiting room radio—
another built-to-be
perpetually
almostdone highway
cambered and jack-
hammering from suburb to suburb—so much less
sober
and circumspect
than the old legend
is—nonetheless
unanimously
re-
branded—Abraham Lincoln.
