The American Dream Chronicles

Strange Fruit
-Lewis Allen
Southern trees bear strange fruit.
Blood on the leaves,
Blood at the root.
Black bodies swinging in the southern breeze,
Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees.

Pastoral scene of the gallant south.
The bulging eyes and the twisted mouth.
The scent of magnolia sweet and fresh.
Then the sudden smell of burning flesh.

Here is a fruit for the crows to [...]

The American Dream used to be a noble dream.  Immigrants came to America for an opportunity.  If they worked hard, they could achieve success and even wealth.
However, nowadays the American Dream has morphed from an opportunity to earn into a desire to get as much money as possible while putting forth the least amount of [...]