a clean and tidy world
where all the pictures
have meanings
and all the thoughts
are consistent
not an agreeable presentation
to greet the mind
with the embellished
simplicities and niceties
that are always so pleasing
to see or hear
not just another idea that
quickly and comfortably
finds its way into the
observer's mind, on its way
to the same pointless
obscurity that all its
predecessors have found
and still we find the
incessant outpouring, the
sameness, the reincarnations
that are mere repititions
perhaps 'much of the same'
is for 'many of the same'
only the few, who exist
where things are different
can ignore the flaws
of an education that
pushes them to exist where
things are the same
Copyright 1984 by James W. Troy
Last updated at 16:50 on 09 Sep 2005