14 Great Poems To Read On Inauguration Day

“Perhaps, / the truth is, every song of this country / has an unsung third stanza,"

"They’ll see how beautiful I am / And be ashamed— / I, too, am America."

"I am a Kennedy. / Shouldn’t we all be Kennedys?"

"You may write me down in history / With your bitter, twisted lies, / You may trod me in the very dirt / But still, like dust, I’ll rise."

“i put a spell on you / it called for 3/5s of my blood / apple pie, red / bones & a full moon”

"Goodest grief is an orchard you know. But you have not been killed / Once. Angel, put that on everything. Self. Country. Stone. Bride."

"I’m your baby, America, your boy, / drunk on my own spit, I am goddamned fuckin’ beautiful. / And I was born / and raised / right here."

“America when will you be angelic?”