College: The Key to Success

Poetry and the American Dream

College: the Key to Success

I see my son off to dreams of a vibrant future
Knowing full well that I’m sending him on a snipe hunt
Baccarat, Roulette
Black Jack odds would be a gift, but the tables are full

Slot machines suck us into the broken social contract
All glowing and bright, “play with me; I am the American dream”
As the media complies by waving false flags of prosperity
Tempting us with gadgets and toys; celebrities and game shows

Colleges have become vocational; they teach skills of obsolescence
Grant degrees for shiny new cars that will soon be outdated and replaced

What our youth need to learn is
civility, social intelligence, independent thinking
And, most importantly,

How to kill the complacency
In which the minds of my generation
Have become so deeply esconced