HERITAGE
old men with white beards
stand on podiums, pontificating,
pay attention, we can benefit from
their wealth of life-experience
and accumulated learning,
old white men with beards
lecture interminably, listen,
we are fortunate they deign
to gift us with their wisdom,
tell us how to think and behave
old white men with white beards and
portly waistlines, poets, professors
curators and clerics, novelists,
critics, politicians and historians
pause for power-point punchline
punctuation and dramatic effect
as we hang on their every word,
these venerable old custodians of
whiskery white male cultural values
fixed ideas, intractable philosophies
and academic elitism
…everything we reject
and don’t need to learn,
listen,
I’ll tell you
how to dance in sunshine
Also featured online at:
‘IT: INTERNATIONAL TIMES’
(24 August 2019)
http://internationaltimes.it/heritage/
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