THE BOOK OF DAMN
YANKEES
OTHERWISE KNOWN AS THE BOOK OF MANIFEST DESTINY
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Chapter 143
And all Yanks everywhere could always just forget about everything and watch ptelevision,
2Which was all about how great it was to be a Yank,
3Because on TV, qall Yank dads were wise and wonderful,
4rAnd all Yank moms were warm and beautiful,
5sAnd all Yank kids were smart and helpful,
6tAnd all Yank heroes were brave and handsome and noble,
7uWhether they were TV cowboys,
8vOr TV policemen,
9wOr TV private eyes,
10xOr TV lawyers,
11yOr TV doctors,
12zOr even TV gamblers.
13And that’s not all,
14Because TV also showed the Yanks the best way to live,
15Meaning the Yank way,
16aWhere everybody owned the same spotlessly clean two-story house on the same perfectly clean, tree-lined street in the suburbs,
17bAnd drove the same enormous station wagon with fake wood on the sides,
18cAnd smiled the same bright cheerful smile all the time,
19dAnd always solved all their problems right before the last commercial,
20eWhich proved just how great it was to be a Yank,
21Living in the land of the Yanks.
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