CONFORMITY

Everyone must choose
today to conform
whether at the prom
dot com or in the dorm

To interview a youth
gives us no clues
to new ideas or truth
only packaged smears

They hear on radio and T.V.
all the same slogans
few refuse to feel free
to choose another station

It's the media's fault
you say which controls
an encyclopedia's discernment
in children's contented souls,

There was one Socrates
Jesus or St. John of the Cross
as hemlocks of persecution
when crucifixion counts as loss,

Today it's all for chits and gain
maybe on Main or Wall Street,
for attaining is a fit in lesson
this generation may guess on.