The Uselessness of American Counties
Their names are short and ugly,
or long and impossible to spell:
Buck, Dent, Canandaigua.
They only appear on fine state maps-
where they look identical.
Through history, only three did anything
not done better by a city or state.
No young child ever knows he lives in one.
No man, dying, calls one home.
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