<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"><span style="color: rgb(41, 41, 41); font-family: sohne, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 32px; letter-spacing: -0.016em; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">America is a Gun</span><div><div><br></div><div>by Brian Bilston</div><div><br></div><div>England is a cup of tea.</div><div>France, a wheel of ripened brie.</div><div>Greece, a short, squat olive tree.</div><div>America is a gun.</div><div><br></div><div>Brazil is a football on the sand.</div><div>Argentina, Maradona’s hand.</div><div>Germany, an oompah band.</div><div>America is a gun.</div><div><br></div><div>Holland is a wooden shoe.</div><div>Hungary, a goulash stew.</div><div>Australia, a kangaroo.</div><div>America is a gun.</div><div><br></div><div>Japan is a thermal spring.</div><div>Scotland is a highland fling.</div><div>Oh, better to be anything</div><div>than America as a gun.</div></div><div><br></div>————————————————-<br><br><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">http://www.MoscowCares.net</span></div><div><br></div><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tom Hansen</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Moscow, Idaho</span></div></div><div><br></div><div>“A stranger is just a friend you haven’t met.”</div><div>- Roy E. Stolworthy</div><div></div></div></div></body></html>