The Equalizer Poem by John Sensele

Letters and digits on my slate
Scraps of offals on my plate
Plasmodia bursting my red blood cells
Dinning my auditory system like Hell's bells
I struggle to figure out the meaning
I derive when the limpidity of life keeps thinning
When I should strive to arrive
At the apex that vexes the drive
Where the fork in the reality road
Dares my brain never to paint broad
Ideas developed into clear thoughts
Leapfrogging the emptiness of noughts
Into a vista teeming with the trivia
That like Midas' touch fly my pate into Monrovia
Thinking, clinking and blinking like mad
Although more and more I feel sad
Principles have died
Virtues have cried
As university education counts for nothing
Where once university education opened doors to everything
Worthwhile
Fertile
In a job market where values and virtues found support
In an annual headhunting report
That inspired me to seize the horns of Mathematics
And dance and prance with his cousin Physics
Now,my hope lies in the might of artificial intelligence
And the twin development and acceleration of machine learning
My wily weapons to replace dinosaurs from planet Earth
Where the decency and dignity of education are in dire dearth.