RANDOM JACK POETRY HOUR: POEMICS
Lowest Common Denominator
If we empower parents to veto
What can or cannot be taught in school
We’re playing to the lowest denominator
A curriculum for dolts and fools
Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain?
Hold on, think again
The man used the N word
(the one that doesn’t rhyme with tiger)
Like the rumbling of a train
Virginia Woolf and Thomas Paine?
Marked with a blasphemous stain
The truth about the American west?
It would never pass the test
The war to end the war in Nam?
Does anyone really give a dam?
The poetry of William Blake?
Throw it out for God’s sake
Socrates of ancient Greece?
We value his philosophy least
Let parents be the parents
Let teachers run the schools
Don’t ask anyone to do a job
If they do not possess the tools
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