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I Like Americans

By A Foreigner

I like Americans.
They are so unlike Canadians.
They do not take their policemen seriously.
They come to Montreal to drink.
Not to criticize.
They claim they won the war.
But they know at heart that they didn't.
They have such respect for Englishmen.
They like to live abroad.
They do not brag about how they take baths.
But they take them.
Their teeth are so good.
And they wear B.V.D.'s all the year round.
I wish they didn't brag about it.
They have the second best navy in the world.
But they never mention it.
They would like to have Henry Ford for president.
But they will not elect him.
They saw through Bill Bryan.
They have gotten tired of Billy Sunday.
Their men have such funny hair cuts.
They are hard to suck in on Europe.
They have been there once.
They produced Barney Google, Mutt and Jeff.
And Jiggs.
They do not hang lady murderers.
They put them in vaudeville.
They read the Saturday Evening Post
And believe in Santa Claus.
When they make money
They make a lot of money.
They are fine people.

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  • November 15, 2007
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    Interesting man

    From guest Lauren (contact)
    Hemingway, though the interesting man he was, came across to be very strange and odd. Im not so sure he wasnt crazy considering his death by suicide in Idaho. This poem to me has yet to make since, but it made since in some way to him, im sure of it.


  • January 2, 2007
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    um

    From guest bob (contact)
    yea so uhhhh hmmm..well cool beans and theres nothing wrong with santa.

  • Illysook
    May 11, 2006
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    hmmm...

    I think that he overestimated us.