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By Jack Joseph Smith

No Differance Know when you are young And when old, Please remember, if this is the first time you were told In America,, farms and fields, skyscrappers and mountain tops Row houses,, shacks and cabins By the sea or in midland prairie While all together in average homes: Also though,, rich and poor No matter where You are always near,, giants and queens

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No Differance surveys farms, skyscrappers, cabins, seas, prairies, and average homes to argue that across America everyone remains close to grandeur, myth, and power, whether rich or poor.

The page has a democratic sweep. It suggests that scale and legend are not reserved for elites; they haunt ordinary geography too.

Claude

'No Differance' is a democratic catalogue addressed to the young and old alike, delivered as if for the first time: across 'farms and fields, / skyscrappers and mountain tops, / Row houses,, shacks and cabins, / By the sea or in midland prairie,' all gathered 'in average homes.' The leveling argument - 'rich and poor / No matter where' - lands on its egalitarian myth, 'You are always near,, / giants and queens,' so American nearness erases the very difference the title misspells away.