The American Vacation

Opinion is my heart
It is how I breathe
It is how I make my living
And live in the fashion for which I am accustomed

My belief system is my soul
Classic and fierce debate among friend and stranger
Arguments to learn and to teach and to stretch
Digging-in until compromise

Empiricist
Imperialist
Intelligensia
Superiority

To be asked to refrain
From voicing opinion
And thought
And belief

Is to suspend life
Is to power-down intellectuallly
Is to give up
Is to become…American