[Newspoetry] Newspoetry Plays Branson

[Mike Lehman]

It's not too far
To wear the flags
Wave a commercial greeting
Choking with bumper-to-bumper traffic
Bringing the masses
All the star-power they could wish
You have to go through Kabool
In the Show-me-how-to-spell-state

Through pillars of stone
Shaped by near-nuclear-size explosions
On land stolen from the natives
An American tradition
That never calls into question
What freedom means
When you're the loser
In a winner or mostly losers society
At least there's no sinful gambling
In this Midwestern Vegas
Everybody needs to feel like a winner
Even while the market's tanking
The world's largest banjo
Is still playing in Branson

Stone Hill Winery puts your head right
Indoor water parks to beat the heat
The Lumberjack Dinner Show chops while u eat
The American Presidential Museum beckons those
Who find Washington, DC too dangerous
For family fun today

Working families of entertainers
Entertain families of workers
Bragging on how their six-days-old offspring
Joined the troupe
As soon as mom could walk again
Earlyrisers can catch the breakfast show at 8AM
And another at 9:30AM
Ed MaMahon's Raising America