The parallel mind is Waldorfed into an efficiency stream:
rocks where cool heads might have slipped by
instead, ruler thwacks reverberate and shatter
curious dreams into a thousand multiple choices;
blue blokes scrawl obviousness into blue books
to show the power what be what, grammar and
hammers and how did we get here -- history's
literary frat: profess loyalty or your will is our failure;
back and back again, after-summer, it's a fall down
desk dead and sharper pencils matter less than a
raised hand flattering question, eye contact with
authority as a spark, never as a challenge;
nearly as tight a panopticon as that radioactive
two point five child disciplined family, parent
teacher conferences are the treaty between these
authoritarian strains, undemocratic to the final exam;
graduation pride is the canary's coal mine: this was
done to me and therefore the black lung is a gold
star, satisfactory, tri-fold science fair ribbon, spell
checked for morality and achievement and college;
don't stop, some say, like living in mom's basement,
but grad school post-doc pee aych dee -- dwelt under
grounded equilibria, no lightning not ever, this is a
static free laboratory for the exculpation of the human head.
Roman Ryan 