The Daily Death The place where They make you sit And you can walk Down the hall But only for 5 minutes And don't spit The floors And walls Are made with Durable, horrible Fabrics and tile The classrooms Are prisons And the chalk boards The punishments They call them teachers And each day They drill you And gather you And feed you Whatever, wherever Whenever they may You can't stop But every weekend They let you breathe So you can survive Another dive Someday They say You can go And stand up In the winds But until Then They can Tie you down And work you in

But we are All getting weaker Sitting in blank rooms With blank minds How far are we moving? When the sun isn't turning? The bell rings Like cold screaming We walk ouside We breathe the Air Leave the groups Leave the voices Close the lockers Close the doors Turn our faces From the graves Running from shadows Hiding from fears In our homes Safe again Safe again Safe again Soft again Once again Chained to our Private Lives Emerson, The Great The following are quotes from master Emerson, from his epic work "Self Reliance." "Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place that divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events. Great men have always done so, and confided themselves childlike to the genius of their age." "Whoso would be a man must be a