Inside the Classroom
Location
These students are sitting up too straightly,
We must bend them
Break their backs
Twist spines
Remember, this is a slaughterhouse
And it is easier to kill the crippled
It is safer to trial the mutes,
Strip voices
Muffle individuality
Choke the sound
Remember, this is a silent museum
Do not touch the displays
This is Nagasaki before impact
Muted warnings from Hiroshima
This is a different Auschwitz
This is the Birkenau for our youth
This is destruction of the mind, Manōnāśa
This is poison for the brain, Neurotoxin
This is the fall of education, Somalia
This is a manipulated generation, America
Remember,
These lessons are prerecorded
This onslaught preordained