Our animal minds
I spent years on the railroad assembling a great American working-class hero inside myself, I spent enough years in college assimilating, all the great ideas intellectuals use to keep from living on farms. I spent enough years in the classroom teaching the over enculturated spoiled american youth, answering why george washington never smiled, or if the republic is only god's house for a while, (god being a natural born transient), Yet only I knew that inside my mouth, filled with a plastic smile (rather than a wooden one), Like washington was said to have, my tongue completely tied up in lies, lies, lies like many presidents yet to come, until one day i simply walked away, wrapped up in all my convictions, predilections, and illusions, saying to anyone who'll listen- god and country and the gold standard are only delusions, the only real reasons we can't get beyond our animal minds, any real solutions.