STEPS TAKEN

STEPS TAKEN

wash the blood
of these steps

scrub the plaques,
the statues until
it all looks
pristine
  ersatz Athenian

shepherd in your student flock
they are your volk
you are
responsible for
their
safe-
    conditioning
(yet still might have to
get some tasered;
still might
have to get
some heads beaten in)

sitting securely in your much prestigious  chair, 
huge and padded
to signal desinated role,  supposed supreme authority
power
     totally screwed in

and yet
to
   remain on
the safe side

better
stuff your ears with wool
turn headphones
up to full

for the skies are screaming,
the heavens thundering,
the ghosts of great
intellectuals who
graced your halls
are Siren-shrieking

throwing out of kilter
all yout factory
procedures

your vaunted
education
is nothing
but lobotomy

duplication of
all
   that is
crass, all that is brutal
all that is pitiless,
merciless

apotheosis
of horde