Culture Shock
I am an irony of confusion
a supersonic blast of optical illusion
A civilized media flunky
a modern Indian internet junkie
I got brand name clothes
and a red skinned soul
I like the Beatles and the Stones
and the reservation bones
I ride a plastic horse
with a Japanese name
and I fight the wars
through the NFL games
Society has collided with my reality
and a chunk of artificiality
called Manifest Destiny
has confused me
ever so subtly
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 422 |
Words | 80 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 17 |
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