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Alternative Anthem

By Michelle Garren Flye

Oh say, can’t you see

In the day’s last blue light

That our country has bailed

And the darkness is looming?

What good are stripes and little stars

When we don’t do what’s right?

And our laws are all botched,

By our government’s scheming?

And the lies that we’re told

Well, they’re really getting old!

And there’s proof of what’s right

But we must stand up bold.

Oh say, can’t you help me raise a flag we can praise—

O’er a land of truly free and a home to all the brave?