The Flag

"It has become so to-day that when you see the flag boldly and proudly displayed you smell a rat somewhere. The flag has become a cloak to hide iniquity. We have two American flags always: one for the rich and one for the poor. When the rich fly it it means that things are under control; when the poor fly it it means danger, revolution, anarchy. "

The Air-Conditioned Nightmare, Henry Miller, New Directions Publishing Corp, http://www.ndpublishing.com/home.html
1945, p. 37.
Written during a 1941 cross-country road trip of the United States of America by author and artist Henry Miller.