The Revolution Will Not be Tweeted

I found this sorting through some old files on old external hard drives and found this. It dates from about five years ago (Keyboard cat was current and stumbleupon worth mentioning, so I would guess 2008), and predates the stealing of the title by other, minor authors. Grr. Given that, many of the references in this are already woefully and painfully out of date, if they were even in-date in the first place. I present it as a curio.

Pedagogy (A poem)

The buses pull up, at opposite stops

The passengers alight, headed into college

The educators and those to be educated

With textbooks, guitars, laptop computers

Cases of knives, hairdresser’s uniforms, medication

Sketchbooks, dictaphones, packets of cigarettes

And trainers picked to match dyed hair

And my mind draws connections

The tunnel leading into the stadium

Or into the gladiator’s arena

The passage tomb

The Anderson shelter

Subterranean vision rituals

Of the ancient Nazca