Linguistics

I called Noam Chomsky yesterday and said
Nothing is better than reality.
He replied that it would be interesting
to impute some constitution to nothing.
I asked if he meant that with a capital 'C',
and he said that was pretty much the USA,
which angered me, given that
my father had grown from and given so much to his country,
and his generation had planted good seeds.

I wanted to be free of my anger,
to stand up in my stream of thinking,
to speak the equality of my creation,
even in the face of someone
who spoke better than me
and then it occurred to me
that I don't have to speak better
I just have to be.