THE FLAG II

pstrong pJust Thinking aloudbr / about our tricolor symbolbr / cloth and silk./p/strong/p pDIV align="left" TABLE cellpadding="5"TR VALIGN="TOP"TD/td/trTR VALIGN="TOP"TD/td/trTR VALIGN="TOP"TDTR VALIGN="TOP"TD pby Joe B./p pI've been thinking of the many reprensentations of our American Flag. /p pBesides Scott Key's inspired poem-set to song during the mother country of England's conflict with thirteen colonies./p pMost of whom thought it a daft, crazy, or a lost cause. /p pEventually others get pissed off with England's higher taxes. /p pIn the late 1770's or '80's being this new type of independant people called American is no longer a joke told around the titled gentleman or circles of power in Parliment./p pb"NO TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION."/b /p pIt was a foolish, close, bold, and ultimately smart thing that had to be done if a new nation is to rise./p pEnough of our tortured, birth and short history. /p pOur flag should represent many views. I envision those 60 peice symbol and 70's yellow smile icon that in the 1980's and 90's became angry, crooked, slanted, and angry in turns. /p pOr a 3D graphic of the flag dripping blood from the red stripes onto the white ones, from small specks to large pools all across-with drips also falling from some of the stars too./p pThe gray or black flag = Death, nation and gay rainbow flag mixed with other past, post modern, to futurist renditions of our enduring symbol plus the same for our national bird and our many states animals, flower symbols./p pIt will take one humongous flag to take all that on but we have competent artists of all persuasions to combine all the elements equally excluding myself./p pThat could be one of many ways we can further heal our selves and give the country a possitive psychological boost and morale builder./p pAny other ideas-ladies, men, boys 'n girls tell me about them? Bye. /p pPlease donate what can to br /Poor Magazine orbr / br /C/0 Ask /ppJoe at 255 9th St.br / br /Street, San Francisco, CA. 94103 USA/p pFor Joe only my snailbr / br /mail:PO Box 1230 #645br / br /Market St.San Francisco, /ppCA 94102br / br /Email:askjoe@poormagazine. org/p p/p/td/tr/td/tr/table/div/p