Professors & Potsherds

Professors

Strip-mined our minds,

Removing dance, songs & smiles.

Shoveling in

Math & chagrins,

Felonious facts by the mile.

E equals emcee-squared,

Energy, Earth &

Éclairs.

Bundle ’em up,

Pour in a cup,

Smash them while walking down stairs.

Honeyed sounds,

Teasing kids’ ears.

Ground-down with words & worm-gears.

Thread-chains of verse,

Shoved in a hearse,

Smashing the heart with old fears.

High-brows

Strip-mining minds,

Digging out jazz, risk & smirks.

Poking our ribs,

Telling us fibs,

All in the name of their work.

Lettuce

Turnip our nose,

Giving bananas appeal.

Leaving our schools

To schnapps & old fools,

Driving us back to what’s real.