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I’d like to thank the American taxpayers all over the country for providing, yet again, another fireworks show free to DC residents.  It’s not often we feel your love and I know you think we aren’t really that special — being something more than a city and something less than a state — but once a year, for a day, you make up for it.

So here’s a little something from me to you, America.

All-American Sestina by Florence Cassen Mayers

One nation, indivisible
two-car garage
three strikes you’re out
four-minute mile
five-cent cigar
six-string guitar
six-pack Bud
one-day sale
five-year warranty
two-way street
fourscore and seven years ago
three cheers

three-star restaurant
sixty-
four-dollar question
one-night stand
two-pound lobster
five-star general
five-course meal
three sheets to the wind
two bits
six-shooter
one-armed bandit
four-poster

four-wheel drive
five-and-dime
hole in one
three-alarm fire
sweet sixteen
two-wheeler

two-tone Chevy
four rms, hi flr, w/vu
six-footer
high five
three-ring circus
one-room schoolhouse

two thumbs up, five-karat diamond
Fourth of July, three-piece suit
six feet under, one-horse town