MAKE HISTORY COMPULSORY; drop science

at whim. Reschedule languages. Combine

music & P.E. with marching bands.

Forbid auto-didactics, solitary

play, furtive conniving with the muses.

Is there something you’d like to share

with the rest of us? Assuredly

not. Watch as I ply self-assurance

tenuously into labyrinthine rage.