EDUUCATION

  by young Hobo Clay  1972

 

Like being smothered by a mountain of

 moving fingers gouging at your trembling body,

 picking and scratching at your ears and eyes trying

 to get to your brain and jerk it out of your skull so

 they can sand it down and polish it until it gleams.

 Then they melt it down and pour it back in through

  your ears and then place a tap on the top of your head

  so that it can be removed at will in order to conform

  with changes in the anthill society.

       Then you are placed in a corner of a tunnel, where

  you are fed and fed, until your bowels will excrete

  nothing but pure, undigested food, and you have

  become so obese that your arms and legs have molded

  and rotted off. All that remains is a smooth ball, with

  a mouth that depends on the gouging fingers to stuff

  your face.      You are now adapted.