04-11-2015, 03:23 AM
Scholarship Athletes and Oz
Searching for George Romero,
he found George Glass instead.
The scarecrow can be forgiven
for his head was only a bag of straw.
He could barely think
of anything at that moment
except to rip the seams and hope
to fill himself with a haystack.
So he traveled a road
chosen for him to perform
for the great and powerful
man behind the curtain.
Who one day would hand him a diploma,
creased like the queen of hearts
in a Three-card Monte.
There would be applause from those people
who never want to look too closely.
The diploma would prove
that something was in
that same small head all along.
Searching for George Romero,
he found George Glass instead.
The scarecrow can be forgiven
for his head was only a bag of straw.
He could barely think
of anything at that moment
except to rip the seams and hope
to fill himself with a haystack.
So he traveled a road
chosen for him to perform
for the great and powerful
man behind the curtain.
Who one day would hand him a diploma,
creased like the queen of hearts
in a Three-card Monte.
There would be applause from those people
who never want to look too closely.
The diploma would prove
that something was in
that same small head all along.
The secret of poetry is cruelty.--Jon Anderson