Curriculum

"Knowledge, my young colleagues,
is the shortest distance
between two points,
and the truth is flat -
 
that is why we talk round,
otherwise they’ll set out
with their shiny faces
from point A - here -
 
trailing those useless
clouds of glory,
and, if not detoured
round the picturesque   

side-streets of circumlocution,
they’ll  keep going package, straight
through the Benidorms of time,
to point B - over there - 
 
and fall off the edge
of a life that’s flat,
and spin like spent spaceships

all over the ruddy place!"

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