NCLB
The Mind Mill
Free minds are trees
Rooted in earth
Branches swaying to the sun
Authority carries a chain saw drunk on its own vapors.
Where victims seldom heard screaming are
Cut to the base
 Stripped of bark
Milled to manageable widths and lengths
Stacked neatly into rows:
Material for a better McMerica.
School pretends to build trees from pieces of wood.
                                   Shawn Hamilton, Arcata, 1984
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