"Had you been so adept through a series of polished hoops?"
That reminds me of something that happened in class earlier
today.
We were talking about running through hoops, the 10 of you
that were there, 15.
"Had you been so adept through a series of polished hoops?
All of your training amounting to this, countless titles
and certificates affixed to a wall, that sort of thing,
halos you couldn't pass through now.
Some said you were at the doctor, but were you patient?
This was the start of many confusions,
working out salvation by the sweat of your furrowed brow,
the shape of your body afflicted with what it was,
what you were becoming all along.
Could regimens really keep the future at bay?
Suffering, death, et cetera, all of the usual calamities
that kept you employed.
Congress with whomever sought your care now
left benighted on pastures where you at once put out."
[RINGS BELL]