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Walt Whitman decides to invent

America anew--

towering architecture, spires,

cathedrals of the common man,

with the fierce light of the free heart

bursting, spinning the golden spinnakers--

fit for the forest and prairie,

taking its proper name from them--

revealed in the splendor of mountains.

He needs no Constitution!

He needs no legal shenanigans!

Give it back to the Indians who nourished it!

Give it back to the Blacks who bled for it!

Give it back to the Mexicanoes

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