Wednesday, September 14, 2011

Cultural Lag

  Cultural Lag
 
     To My Students
Stunning yet Un-stunned
 
You guys don’t know
how smart you are. 
Might as well tell Joe
Fish he’s all wet.
 
You think I’m brown
nosing, sucking up?
(Like me, like me:
you smart things,
you!)
 
I’m scolding.
Shaking a stick,
stun you stupid
I wish.  In my
dreams.
 
You got the whirl at
your finger tips, lap
top dancing for almost
free—all the info you
need to know playing
pool in your pockets.
 
Awesome.
 
Alright: probably brown
 nosing too, I admit it.
   Like me. Like me.
It’s the denial & cover-up
that raises the bozone level.
        Pity.

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