The Oracles are Dumb

Here I stand

On the fringes of insanity,

Compensated by near-mortality;

The oracles are dumb.

The feelers of conscience are numb.

Friends dissolved in the fires of persecution,

Fickle like the senate amending the constitution,

Money’s the open sesame into every institution,

And the motive of all academic pursuit,

Yet they deceive the youth.

Akpan