Sonnets From Other Lives: Evan

Our public schools are a pons assinorum--
a systematic weeding out of fools
& weaklings too susceptible to boredom
to function as effective corporate tools.
Evan’s in full bloviation mode.
He’s lost himself completely in his rant.
Escapes are made by those well in the know.
The less informed pretend to be entranced.
Land of the free? Hell everybody pays.
Everybody owes somebody something.
Do the math. We’re all somebody’s slave.
Someone’s clapping. Someone else is jumping.
In his mind he’s here to make us think
but really we just want another drink.