“In The Zone” a poem by the Bard of Murdock

It’s Sunday and today’s poem from The Bard of Murdock exposes one university’s guidelines relating to free speech. The poem was originally published on Saturday, July 21, 2012. Please be sure to read the article linked by the Bard before reading the poem.

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In The Zone

Article link: Free Speech Zone at Indiana University, Southeast

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Professors in the lecture hall

Harangue the students, one and all,

With leftist theories from a script

Exhumed from Karl Marx’s crypt.

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Protected by the tenure shield,

Their politics are unconcealed,

And wielded like a battle axe,

Devoid of logic, truth or facts.

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Attentive students must submit

To academic holy writ

On climate change and its effects,

On reproductive rights and sex.

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And if the scholars disagree

With their professors, they are free

To make their suppositions known

Within the campus free speech zone.

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And thus it cannot be maintained

The rights of students are restrained,

For they can speak, if so inclined,

In space the campus has defined.

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The Bard of Murdock

My goal is to produce poetical cartoons. I try to use metaphors and caricatures (or a politician’s own words) to address complex political and social situations. In this way, I sum up current events in humorous verse.

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