The Taking Of A Nation One Two Three

'Excuse me.  Are you a citizen of this country?'

'Yeah.'

'I'm conducting a survey.  You mind if I ask you a couple of questions?'

'No.  Okay.'

'You know our flag.'

'Yeah.'

'How any stars does it have.'

'How many stars.  Oh, a lot.'

'Do you know what they stand for?'

'What they stand for.  No.  Aren't they just a...'

'Design feature?'

'Yeah.  That.'

'No.  And the stripes?'

'Yea-a-ah?'

'Do you know what they stand for?'

'There you go again, with that 'what they stand for' business.  They're just stripes. As far as I know.'

And, like, bars, Citizen.  Of a prison.

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