MEMORIAL DAY (50 STATES)

50 STATES
state of grace
the milk state
Oregon
state room
state of anxiety
hazy state
estate
statement
Rugby Kissick state
Florida
the empire state
disaster state
the lightbulb state
soup state
Statue of Liberty
state of no return
the White Bear state
doped state
recoil state
Please state your name, address, occupation
the German shepherd state
bent on destruction
                           state
the farmer state
state of no more parades
the tobacco state

statesman
stately
state prison
stasis
status
static
station wagon
state flower
state of innocence

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ambition state
North Carolina
Jasper’s state
the united state
big state
state your cause
income state
jump the gun state
Roman nose state
manic depression state
hospital state
speed state
calculated state
gone forever state
the body state

the death body state   

From Ted Berrigan & Anne Waldman, Memorial Day (1971)

Illustrations:

1. Caspar David Friedrich, The Wanderer Above The Sea of Fog, oil on canvas, 1818.

2. Rudolph Steiner, Second Goetheanum,  Dornach, 1924-28.

3. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Liberty Pole at the French Border at the Moselle, watercolor and pencil, 1793. 

4. Nirvana: Smells Like Teen Spirit (Link)