Anarchy on the American Campus

Social, political, educational commentary

ANARCHY ON THE AMERICAN CAMPUS

   Tuesday morning ))nine-thirty am((
a robust hustle hushes and shuffles in academic tones and rhythms
   as footsteps spring light in Spring �" moving from one piece of

holy intellectual ground to the next

in a generational wave of 21st century energy
   and EN-ergy

           and techno-LOGY

                  and LIBER-ality

Pieces of electronically pulsing screens

screening out the Spring light

The absent recognition of holy ground
   the pursuit of "knowledge"
Endless trains of faithless journeymen and WO-man seeking the meaning
   and not just getting the answers right but asking the wrong questions
in a question of
     time
            space
                     love
                           sidewalks

and the nine-thirty am class across the campus of present danger and future clarity

)(conservatively speaking)(

A song about old friends and bookends talks about

waiting for the sun to rise on a Tuesday morning

And the sun IS rising
to a blessed day of relative bliss
and the
     heart-warming
     mind-numbing
     soul-crushing
                               idea

of
     Anarchy on the American Campus