
Flux Magazine
"It Begins Again" by Kadie Michelle
I stare at a screen for so long
and try to keep my shoulders back
and my eyes from sinking back into their sockets
and we pay so much to be impersonated by
some debt ridden "learner" who leaves with
a paper unlearned
so I ask what are we doing here?
we bite out tongues and swallow our pride
and consume the ideologies and prejudices
of those putting them onto us
and we will never explore whether they were right or wrong
because we don't have the time to rebel against the hand that feeds us,
even when that is our absolute right
and we suffer through biased storytelling
daily as we question where this bias comes from but it's right in front of us
and it walks and taps its feet and doesn't take
into consideration
our previous values and mindsets
when testing us
the respect is
lacking and malnourished
and yet I ask another time
what are we doing here?
-kd