Numb. 1510 Proj 2025 | Dip In The As Of Tx

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Numb. 1272 Learning Book Burning

Purge pagan books from library shelves.

Heave heathen texts from the schools.

Prevent perversion, kids bound for hell

having been Socrates’d by Satan’s tools

force-feeding our nation corrupt education,

regaling children with tales of false deities

prodding them down the path to perdition

filling young minds with ambiguities.

Burn all the books of ancient philosophers.

Out, high thee hence. Go away, Aristotle,

quick, put betwixt us miles and kilometers.

I swear, though dead, if not we will throttle you.

Protect the kiddies from ancient playwrongs,

lest they question the Gospel or Bible.  

The idea that gods, though false, do wrong,

could, we’re afraid, make young minds pliable. 

Dorothy Parker (after a drink?),

said, “If led to culture, some learn to think.”*

———————————— *Actually, it was “You can lead a horticulture, but you can’t make her think.” Put my misuse down to poetic licentiousness. Also, full disclosure, I have no knowledge that Dottie was drinking when she said it, but I conjecture she said it at Algonquin Round Table, so it would be, I'll warrant, a safe-ish assumption.