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Under the veil of ignorance

by Charlie Morgan

i am the protest sign written
in invisible ink; coming out in
the night; under broken lights.

i've never been snared; nabbed, not;
spanning the breakfasts' of all losers;
Napoleons relieving village idiots

as progress is blared from tiny lips;
lips that can't part, so remain closed.
time moves on yet, stays quietly still.

we call it names, bad ones too: school, future;
education, major, dean, teacher. paleontology,
archaeology, other stuff, ooohh! the nerve.
your/me? teachers just talk and talk and talk
and it's so interrreeeeeessssssssZZZzzzzzzzzzz.

10/25/2008

Posted on 10/25/2008
Copyright © 2026 Charlie Morgan

Member Comments on this Poem
Posted by Alisa Js on 10/26/08 at 12:20 AM

Hello Charlie, I enjoyed this one and wonder sometimes what is really happening to us as a society if we can no longer think for ourselves? And not continue to run around as foolish sheeple, repeating the same, blah, blah, blah we hear from the media whores....hmmmmmm...

Posted by George Hoerner on 10/26/08 at 03:28 AM

I've always felt that those teachers that knew their subject very, very well, made the best teachers. I never feel asleep when listening to someone who really knew what he/she was talking about. I think you get that a lot more until you get to the college level but even then at times...

Posted by Dani Rose on 10/27/08 at 04:39 AM

this reminded me of cummings, in a way. the frank manner, i think? i'm bad at comparisons--suffice to say i love cummings, and loved this.

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