And the Culture That Is American...

What is American 
In the 21st century,
The way we would define it,
The thing others would call us,
Not individuals,
Not circumstances,
The stories that would define us,
In some later time,
The narratives,
Unmoored;
What is that,
I wonder,
Not the sad stories
About the deaths of kings
Whispered in campfire,
Tapped into keyboard,
But the thing that exists
Without our thinking about it,
And the culture that is American.

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