# Unamerican

By [Teddy Knox](https://paragraph.com/@teddyknox) · 2022-03-09

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    At peaceful night
    Lying horizontal in a tower
    150 feet from the street
    Inside a nice neighborhood
    Of a nice city
    Of a nice country
    That’s rotting away
    
    I used to think
    That everything was meaningful
    But now I think very few things are
    And everything else
    Is somebody’s ego
    
    The things I cling to
    Are the things I used to believe
    Proved our difference
    To the rest of the world
    Now they prove
    Momentum’s power
    
    
    I hesitate to ask the prewar building
    What it’s seen
    Because I know
    Its stories will take me into the past
    And leave me there
    Wondering how we got here
    
    
    So I’ll lie on a mattress
    In a room with heat and hardwood floors
    And a view
    And food in the fridge
    And let go of America

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*Originally published on [Teddy Knox](https://paragraph.com/@teddyknox/unamerican)*