Just stifle the schools
to achieve your rule.
Switch educators
for God-conjurers,
and conjugation
with grammar purges.
Impose summaries,
abbreviations,
and bland certainties
on education.I
In your war against
ideas and style,
curiosity
is put on trial.
But the decorum
of your concrete courts
won’t withstand jungled
improvs of bold youth.
We gather the fires
of the books you burn
to build the bunting
above your ash urns.
Duane Vorhees