A Late Night Review

The Davis,

The medication…

Follow the yellow brick road?–

The kindest of stouts, the euphoric vigilance of a baseball purist,

a purgerer,

cathartic missionary,

a sedentary poet,

no classists evoked in our test-driven society,

and we gaze in amazement at Yeats, Pope, Keats…

Well, they were drenched in Latin, mythology, the ancients,

And NWA evokes Homer?

Pearl Jam evokes Herodotus?

Cormac evokes Cicero?

We teachers are scapgotes, are cynical bastards,

yet bards and jokers

whereas Socrates’ magnetism attracted pure students with affinities for absorbtion,

for elucidation,

for a metaphorical mortification of the mind, soul, spirit,

while we evoke policy, paradigm shifts, and a fallacious framework of erudition!

We are fawns with frowns.