You're A Long Way From Home (part 3) - TISM

«These narratives of dispossession, of alienation, of violent resentment

«Resonate so strongly in modern popular youth culture

«Precisely because youth experience is replete with outrage, powerlessness»

He thought there’d be a lectern, like back at his uni

Instead the pimpled green government issue plastic of the chair under him

mockingly squeaks

Timed like a masterly fart to refute his analysis

The only faces still looking at him glaring patronising glee

Most don’t even care to see his undoing

«This voiceless, unarticulated, rage, more potent precisely because it remains

dumb

«Permeates the lyrics of modern rap artists»

Around him in the busted filth of the classroom

The circle of students seems to form into one late-adolescent face of sneered

rejection

«You calling Tupac dumb?» says the face

Their teacher, who invited him all the way out here to speak, immediately

stands up

But they didn’t need their 16 or 17 years of education in threat to sense the

man’s long-defeated anger

Outside from the car park reserved for guests to the school

You can faintly hear the almost routine scratching of duco

You’re a long way from home brainy boy