Someday Soon I'm Going To Open A Vulcan Academy

RECEIVED Wed., March 30, 2011

Dear Editor,
    One day, someday soon, I’m gonna get my shit together and open a Vulcan Academy. There seem to be none, if my Internet is any indication, what with its plethora of Klingon sites and Andorian blue zones. Yet I will sit down one day and calmly found a school of logic, wherein we will teach our students in the ways of reason, so says Surak, so says we, wherein the forces of emotion do not control us, we do not get hotheaded, we do not give ourselves over to the heat of the moment, we do not get bent out of shape; we do not give ourselves excuses for the mistakes we make, we do not say it’s her fault that I’m asshole because she doesn’t feel about me the way I feel about her, we do not say it’s their fault if we can’t say what we mean to say, we do not say we cannot find a way to live in peace. One day, someday soon, I will found a Vulcan Academy, teaching sanity, as I seek solace for my broken heart, knowing I break my own heart, despite what the songs say.
Peace,
Tom Lay
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