first day of poetry class

 

chairs:               skeletons stacked in the corner

                        sacrificial remains had their budgets cut –

                        gone the next day.

 

boards:             ritualistic incantations

                        written in pixie dust: x this, y that –

                        a mathematicians field of play.

 

students:           just scalps of pleasure and talent

                        now that they’ve shrunk our heads –

                        even our words have been filleted.

 

those who put us in our place:               trying to expand our minds

                                                            in a tiny little room –

                                                            Demons…ask us to parade!!

  

 

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