Pedagogy and History

Requiem assigned
virgin penitent minds
shackled to words
with rimming pictures
that shutter the lens
storybook clutter
now dead men talk
their calcified bones
dance on the canvas
suborned to copy
pairing adolescent angst
to itinerant shills
their indelible souls now
entomed in fine print
as contemporary shadows
in languid apathy
hover o'er their wake