Modern Mythology Poem by John Sensele

Lift up laden lads and lasses
Mentor, motivate and mollify the morale
Sagging, gasping, panting a classes
Where from Monday to Friday students as though in a kraal

Waver as they endeavor to labour
In a language whose syntax and morphology
Conflate inconsistencies and decencies wagging a sabre
Students assign and consign to modern mythology

Seeking solace and succor in social circles
In virtual villages where lie and pie
Conspire, collude, coordinate insidious icicles
Between Charybdis and Scylla to spy

Phish, infect information individuals
Surrender to cyclops who sneak cookies
Snooping and nose park in hoops in duels
Millennials and their paucity of social skills in quays

Encrypt and decrypt despite their penchant for parody
Fuss and fracas which they embrace to break down
The old order as they lap up Sarkodie
Patoranking, Platnumz, Perry and PetShop Boys on the eiderdown

Whose feathers flatter their feeble feet
In a paradox parents and their prudence puzzle
Over tearing their hair on hazy heads that won't quit
Lest dare devils should muzzle

Social media
Cutting off Internet engines
With lines of code which Wikipedia
Can't accept students play pranks in ripped jeans.