In the Valley of the Blind, the One-Eyed Man is King -Desiderius Erasmus

Literacy is sought

while knowledge

is to abhor

Thoughts flow by

fields of erudition

in a translucent corridor

Obscure incantations

full of bestial

inhabited hollows

Current zeitgeist’s

broken promises

deadly foreshadows

Intellectual assassins

cultural conflagration

reason burning

Repeated mistakes

consistently made

no one is learning

It’s all games

inside the asylum

until students stampede

But there is hope

as the ignorance

begins to recede