I'm watching a man who stands,

A David against Goliath,

Just across the alley from campus.

He has my attention

As he rails against the university.

"Four years!" he shouts! "Here's my big diploma!"

He preaches on about the evils

Of mammon and propaganda.

"Actually...Actually...Actually..." 

He mocks the academics, 

Both the students and the teachers.

He says he learned more about science

And possibility from comic books,

And I believe him.

Then he asks a question:

"Why do we have so many homeless people 

In this country who are veterans?"

They call him "crazy,"

But I'm listening,

And I wonder if anyone else is.

-jenn