The Results of an Experiment (Failed)
He strolls through the corridors of metal lockers, polished tiles and new plastic signs Made to look like the top of business stationery paper, pleasing to the eye The walls cover with the uniforms of the culture, with colors separated through the Prisms constructed by conceived ideas of animal classification He hears the speeches of the young tongue, foreign to his ears yet subject matter known all to well Children showing motions of a social atmosphere in the hallways of learning. Takes his notes on his pad, patterns develop in his own neural network and truths revealed And he is seeing the expected radiating from his thick skull. He understands, for you see… He’s living a classic naturalist’s dream coming true by viewing inside the by-human, for-human maze Where science can prosper and develop through its life force of observation and analysis. The question is on the condition of humanity. The answer is clear. The prayerful wish requested. We have become like the animals. In the midst of commotion (as schools usually act towards), I found myself reading the paper The scientist had, printed using a normal text typeface and for someone official and important. THE RESULTS OF AN EXPERIMENT read the paper with the fixed font presenting a kind of coldness. MORALITY COMPROMISED. FREEDOM ACHIEVED. SEPARATIONS BETWEEN DIVERSE GROUPS APPARENT FROM YEARS OF GOVERNMENT-APPROVED INDOCTRINATION OF TOLERABLE VALUES DOCTRATE OF PSYCHOLOGY RECIPIENTS INCREASED 60% NEILSEN RATINGS REVEAL LOYALISTS WITH NO RELIGIOUS INCLANATION SOCIETY TOLERATES UNTHINKABLE AND INCONCEIVEABLE IDEAS SPECIAL FX DEVELOPMENT BECOMING STIMULI TO HUMAN BRAIN HEIGHTENING AGGRESSIVE BEHAVIOR FROM MEDULLA OBLONGATA BY 65% AND INCREASE OF SEXUAL EXPRESSIONS AND TENDENCIES BY 69% EVERYBODY IS RESPECTED. PEOPLE ARE LOST IN THE ABSTRACT. LEFT BECOMES RIGHT. END REPORT However, it’s hard to read the report when it is drowning in a pool of blood.
Date of First Draft: 22 April 1999
Influence: Columbine High School, Littleton, CO - 19 April 1999 Information: This poem was a personal response of that particular event. The original working title was "The School of Neighborhoods." This poem appeared on a special temporary tributary section of the personal web project, THE GATEWAY (now defunct). This poem is not part of the original “The Untitled Promo Album” line-up as gathered in early June 2000.