nothing human
about texts ruling coercively
dark as night
as bright as coercive texts
forcing themselves upon the free play of daylight
the repetitive horror of walls
when minds enter into crisis
signifying language's end
and an old nation by a different name
all meanings subject themselves to review
a transformation turning over life's order
a tradition of coercion bereft of any future
hailed as an advanced return of a better past
and the battlefields red from blood horrific scream
are at last dead
silenced in every curriculum