Wednesday, July 31, 2013
Song of the Existential South
Ignorance of Sorts
-Mac, is you iggerunt?
-Only half the time.
-Anyway, worst congressman ever from this state,
TV says. Even beats me out--and I just started
wearing shoes. And your degree from that-thar
Cornell place?
-They’d deny it. And yours from Yale?
-Lux and fuckin Veritas!
-We’re pretty smart when we’re smart.
-Ain’t that what they’re paying for?
-No, they’re paying for opposite.
-But we DO really believe whatall the Big Bucks Boys
is sayin’. Freedom and all that good shit!
-Uh huh. When we bother believing anything at all.
Labels: '"Freedom", cynicism, South, SouthernPolitics
