It Is the Best of Times, It Is the Worst of Times

The certainty of a single future.

— Timothy Snyder, On Freedom (2024)

School days, school days
Ready to break the rules days
Plotting and scheming and seizing power
Snapping to attention at the leader’s glower
You were my queen who read stupid books
I was your fun-loving prankster with the devilish looks
And you wrote on my page, “Fuck You, Asshole”
When we were still free and American