The silent assassin: dedicated to Kenneth Patchen

Take a break
from your predefined
parental-society reality
& take a walk into
what you were taught
not
to see about life

it’s not your fault

there’s a lot more that
just isn’t known,
it’s about what isn’t shown
on the big screen
you were set in front of
when not riding bikes, or
playing in the mud
for fun

I didn’t understand TV
& it was just me
combing through life
diving & weaving
to avoid
the wild beast being stripped
from w/in me

I convinced them
I couldn’t read, because
I knew they wanted something,
I just didn’t know what

but they bathed & combed
me anyway 
at least the best they could
& made me own up
to the fact that, yes I can read
& not only read, but talk
circles around even teachers

I was punished & reviled,
not
given an award

by middle-school I started
a coup among
female students & got a
gym teacher fired,
I was forced
to change schools

by high-school
I conspired to wriggle
my way free
of the public system,
upon victory
I danced & sang
GLORY GLORY
again it’s just me!

public school taught me
to further distrust humanity
& that society is a sham

we are all born wild animals
& we are baited
to be trapped
into a process that is not
our own
& I say, set out the hounds,
take freedom back!


Written some time during 2013, also in my manuscript: Show Heaven to the Sheep