Poetic License: ‘The Pledge of Inclusion’

Joe Pacheco
I pledge allegiance
To the flag
Of the United States of America
And to the republic
For which it stands,
One nation,
Under Jesus Christ, Jehovah, Allah, Buddha, Brahma, Christian Science,
Secular Humanism, Agnostic, Cults and Godless
Atheist substitutes;
Indian, Italian, Ionian
Native American, New Yorker, Norse, Nipponese
Dutch and Deutscher
Irish
Vietnamese
Israeli, Irani, Iraqi
Scandanavian, Sino-Asian, Slavic, Scottish, Syrian and Sicilian
Immigrant, legal and refugee
Black, British, Burmese, Belgian, Balkan and Brazilian
Latino (when they learn English), Libyan, Liberian
Egyptian, Estonian. Ethiopian and Everybody Else (who didn’t fit initially)
WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE
FOR ALL OF THE ABOVE