Intellectual

Drinking red-box-or-bottle wine
Reading Camus' Stranger or Beckett's Godot
Appreciating the Art of Mime
Does not make you intellectual

Writing broken-heart-ed poems
Frequenting the theater show
Wearing sweaters you yourself have sown
I'm sorry you are not intellectual

You may memorize your Shakespeare
You may quote an obscure 80's TV show
You may be from Seattle, New York, or San Francisco
You are still not intellectual

You can support independent film
You can write your existential novel
You can collect Morrissey albums on vinyl
You are still not intellectual

You can shop at thrift stores
You can protest commerce and the wars
You can philoso-phize over what is actual
You are still not intellectual

You can refuse your parents triple-figs
You can refill your green pipe bowl
You can smoke a thousand stupid cigs
You are still, still not intellectual