The kids should visit a history museum
in their senior year, to understand disgrace as
one form of Clinton’ s victory. On the other hand
the European Community foreign debt gives
everybody bad dreams. So we do need to solve
the problem of students reading difficult things
that will lead them astray: why did Rimbaud
turn from socialism to capitalism? As if
it matters. He is his own consolation prize.
We’ d be delighted to have his uniform.
We want to see all the modern art stuff, too.
Thank you. Press the button marked “monument”
and see what happens: a recorded voice says
“I have wasted my life,” and we pay to listen.