Poem: "America Is a Gun"

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England is a cup of tea.
France, a wheel of ripened brie. Greece, a short, squat olive tree.
America is a gun. Brazil is football on the sand.
Argentina, Maradona's hand. Germany, an oompah band.America is a gun. Oh, better to be anything
than America as a gun.
-Brian Bilston

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1. That isn't the whole poem...

Here is the complete Bilson work:

England is a cup of tea.
France, a wheel of ripened brie.
Greece, a short, squat olive tree.
America is a gun.

Brazil is a football on the sand.
Argentina, Maradona’s hand.
Germany, an oompah band.
America is a gun.

Holland is a wooden shoe.
Hungary, a goulash stew.
Australia, a kangaroo.
America is a gun.

Japan is a thermal spring.
Scotland is a highland fling.
Oh, better to be anything
than America as a gun.

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2. Thank you! nt