Vac U

They believed in what it was

They followed the path that the others

had laid out

They learned how to live in the vacuum

I wonder

If I was ever alone

in my rebellion of it

I believed I was different

I believed I was alone

But here, I see I suffer with the rest

There is something terribly wrong 

in the Institution

It will suck you up

if you don't rebel

But it's the rebellion that kills

It drives us to our half-dead state

Our teachers can't teach

Our students can't learn

Education is dead at the State U

Perhaps

there is a place for me

Perhaps I don't belong in school

But then, who does?

Who belongs to the death?

Perhaps they will tell me

that I am at fault

I can belong, but I don't

They want to help me learn

to live in the vacuum

If I go to them,

they'll let me know that they care

But why?

Why do they exist?

Why must I shake away part of my mind

to reach goals of prosperity?

I'm already believing

that what I feel is not unique

Next, I will learn to work in spite of discontent

Then, I will lose my life

I will believe in what it is

I will follow the path that the others have 

laid out

I will learn how to live in the vacuum

- Dec. 2, 1985, A.D.