Academia Contrived
by Anthony Salandy
Dusted books have become distorted
And synthetic in their symbolic capital,
Where large are fonts verbose
And all knowing,
For no thought is free in digital existence
Drained of concrete substance
And controlled by years of documentation
Derived from playing a system closed,
Where only far removed status holders
May determine what can be heard,
What should be understood
Amongst paradigms in battle persistent,
But only archived references remain,
Interpreted by generations ever coerced
Into academic submission,
Characteristic of gated social fields, ironic.
And synthetic in their symbolic capital,
Where large are fonts verbose
And all knowing,
For no thought is free in digital existence
Drained of concrete substance
And controlled by years of documentation
Derived from playing a system closed,
Where only far removed status holders
May determine what can be heard,
What should be understood
Amongst paradigms in battle persistent,
But only archived references remain,
Interpreted by generations ever coerced
Into academic submission,
Characteristic of gated social fields, ironic.
Anthony Salandy is a mixed-race poet and writer whose work tends to focus on social inequality throughout late-modern society. Anthony travels frequently and has spent most of his life in Kuwait jostling between the UK and America. Anthony's work has been published 100 times internationally. Anthony has one published chapbook titled "The Great Northern Journey."