Short on cogitation long on repetition
a sense-drilled-out-of-him curriculum victim;
an overschooled fool a paragon of obedience
methodically misled by the misleading system

a distinguished received-opinion-junkie
— the quintessential intellectual flunky —
our star so-called-scholar was addicted
to a rigid diet of unquestioning study.

An accomplished parrot a tenured automaton
an academic yes-man a miseducated dope
the epitome of learning
by means of mindless rote

he beamed with pride at the letters
that like a tether of weathered chain
he never failed to unspool
into the depths at the end of his name;

beamed at the mere sight and thought
of all these sought-after alphabetic links
that anchored his claim to scholastic fame
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Having become a cant jangling jester
a registered expert at glibly transmitting
his academese-steeped disease;
a lauded champion of the mauling of logic
and the mangling of language

an impeccably vetted adept
at scientific and semantic perversion;
one of mental corruption's illustrious
preeminent accredited merchants
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to that prestigious catbird seat that perch
reserved for the highest high priest
and dispenser-in-chief of certified quackery
in the graduate factory's fabulous faculty
of pseudo-scientific studies.

A model indoctrinator an ideological clown
a doctrine bound buffoon;
an inquiry despising curiosity deterring
conformity enforcing goon

our star so-called-scholar
— while pretending to defend and foster
all things enlightened —
was secretly sworn to thwart critical thinking

being as he was a big deal
in the well-dissembled field
of advanced enhanced blinkering.