should i care for education
split between two economic models,
capitalism and the right
would teach me to dig further
and furthest into the mine,
self-educated in the sense of the utmost,
while communism and the left
would teach me "you've learnt enough,
go and teach!" go and teach?
teach and become an imbecile?
is this the right form of marketable
charity? dumb down to teach
the dumbed down readied for menial tasks?
i picked up a book like a sword,
there's no point telling me to claim
a book to be a hammer -
goose squat in trot i say, should it be
necessary - although even my grandfather
would beg to differ, manual labours are
no labours of expanding the mind -
so mind that you find gravity rather than
knowledge in terms of what drags down
your levitation of the unit known as self,
better you find gravity than you find knowledge,
since the existence of the self is better
explained with gravity than knowledge,
since there is easier imagining to
craft a leash for your rummaging with
imagining it otherwise, not so -
but in repetition i might only add,
had i the gluttony to eat all that came
i wouldn't have taken the route toward
a literacy, and i would now complain at
the poverty of the intellect grasped -
instead i complain at the intellect grasped,
with so little sensual temptation being
experienced as rites of our father, that
petulant prayer and hope for the crucifix
of forgiveness to be exercised -
O indeed should that be the cleavage of
white tulips in blossom, i too would wage
an unending war - had i left the temple
of old men clamouring feminine youth
to discourage masculine youth
into debt and regret from ever achieving equal
status to their own...
then unto youthful masculine the promise
of daily reincarnation in war and brotherhood,
a Valhalla, a Valhalla...
and unto the feminine the daydreams of
being trapped in such bodies as given but
living out a dream of reincarnation as feline;
the furry serpents due to the diamond pupils;
then unto the boys blue trucks and war,
as unto the girls pink mannequins and cats.