Sense Sonnet - Acher

Buy U.S.A.

China buying U.S.A. oil?
Why should we Americans fret?
Patriotic blood did not boil
In piling up enormous debt,
Owing China a trillion bucks
Because we let gov leaders spend
And spend and spend and just said, "Shucks,"
"The U.S. is too big to end!"
But we are heading to a close
Of the way of life we have known.
It's our fault because we chose
To spend away all that we own.

It's China now with cash to burn.
The U.S.A. has had its turn.