Ellis Jones

You know what I mean?

They're like, they have no education and I've always educated myself, you know, like I've always just had a passion for knowledge.

So I remember the guard was like asking people questions in it.

Cause the guards taught school on the weekends, uh,

During the week it was a teacher, but on the weekends the drill instructors taught classes.

And he asked me, like, how can you tell the difference between a venomous and a non-venomous snake?

And I said, like, the venomous snakes have more of, like, rounder eyes and their heads are more oval-shaped where you'll get, like, a shovel-shaped head on a venomous snake for the glands and blah, blah, blah.

And he listens to me and he goes, you're not supposed to be here.

And I had a sigh of relief.

Like they're going to send you home.

And he's like, that doesn't mean anything at all, but I don't think you're supposed to be here.

And then what was another thing?

I had to write a report on Andrew Jackson, and he was like, this is the best thing that has ever been written in this bouquet.

It means nothing.

It means nothing.

He's like, don't go getting a big head about it.

You know what's another fucked up thing?

I'm glad you kind of took me off on this tangent, because...

I was like, I just jumped into school when I was in boot camp, like just drown out the sorrow, read, educate yourself.

And we weren't allowed to read for recreation.