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May202006

Ray Bradbury

DateSaturday, May 20, 2006 at 07:22AM

From the Wall Street Journal-

America

By RAY BRADBURY
May 17, 2006; Page A18

We are the dream that other people dream.
 The land where other people land
 When late at night
 They think on flight
 And, flying, here arrive
 Where we fools dumbly thrive ourselves.

Refuse to see
 We be what all the world would like to be.
 Because we hive within this scheme
 The obvious dream is blind to us.
 We do not mind the miracle we are,
 So stop our mouths with curses.
 While all the world rehearses
 Coming here to stay.
 We busily make plans to go away.

How dumb! newcomers cry, arrived from Chad.
 You're mad! Iraqis shout,
 We'd sell our souls if we could be you.
 How come you cannot see the way we see you?
 You tread a freedom forest as you please.
 But, damn! you miss the forest for the trees.
 Ten thousand wanderers a week
 Engulf your shore,
 You wonder what their shouting's for,
 And why so glad?

Run warm those souls: America is bad?
 Sit down, stare in their faces, see!
 You be the hoped-for thing a hopeless world would be.
 In tides of immigrants that this year flow
 You still remain the beckoning hearth they'd know.
 In midnight beds with blueprint, plan and scheme
 You are the dream that other people dream.

Mr. Bradbury is the author of "Fahrenheit 451" and numerous other books.

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