Evan Greer

Liberty Is A Statue
she said “no, you are not a girl you are a boy. you'd best start acting like one or i will tell your mom i'll tell your dad i'll send you to the principle again now for the last time tell me what have you learned today?” “teacher, teacher, i learned that there is only one way that i can live. and that's the way that they program in the textbooks and the tv screens” hey mom, what did i learn today in school? i learned how to be a boy. i learned how to be a man. and i sang “my country 'tis of thee” because i like to sing. Letras de cancionesand i learned that there's an 'us,' there's a 'them' there are good guys there are bad guys and the bad guys aren't allowed to be your friends. and i learned all about liberty it's a statue in a harbor near a city called new york and i learned, statues are things that we build to remind us of things that have died. but wait, i'm so confused because they told us that sharing was good but then i look at my own town and the one next door and i wonder why we don't share some of our mansions with the four car garages? and them in their broken-down mills and the dirty river that runs between us it's not safe to swim across. they told us so on a fieldtrip to the other side. From Letras Mania