Category Archives: poem, poetry, satire, student protests,

AFTER THE PROTESTS

after the protests
I was on your campus
looking for
the Department
of Denial

passed through various
scan and search and
barbed wire
checkpoints before
I was cross-
checked
and led in

and once in felt
myself
consumed by
an unearthly excitement
so keen I was
to meet the students, meet
the staff, explore what
in depth research
was here taking place
pushing the envelope of
Denial, Closure and
related fields
in the Human and
Scientific Disciplines
within
the all-new
Faculty of
Silence (thing of which
the new-look
university had
long dreamt,
best replacement
for the Arts and
Politics and Philosophy

but when I asked
in all eanest
to be directed there
they swore

we still lived in a world
in which such
ideas of grave
and obvious insanity
could not possibly exist

I said (for
my little part)
that was such a shame, a
terrible indictment,
hugely unfortunate

hoping that
no one should lose sight
of this vision supreme