America

The poem America was a poem that had multiple meanings. The way I interpreted the poem was that the author is talking about how everyone "points the finger" at each other when everyone is really sitting back and waiting on somebody to make the difference. Considering the fact that the author goes from once extreme to another. He starts out by thinking the student is full of shit and ends up saying "And I think, "I am asleep in America too."" There is also something else that I interpreted from this poem. I think that the author is also saying that America is too self-dependent among what is advertised. There are multiple instances in the poem where I thought this. There is one that stuck out the most and started at the beginning when the boy said that America for him was a maximum-security prison. The author then goes on to say that the boy is wearing phony ghetto clothes. As if the boy were falling under the influence of the advertisements.