Kanye looked at college
and saw a building
selling permission.

Stand here. Read this. Pass that.

He called the first record
The College Dropout

and made leaving school
sound like a kind
of enrolment.

Professors had office hours.

Kanye had drums.

The next one called
Late Registration,

And next called Graduation,

Maybe there is danger
declaring yourself
your own university.

No professor saying,

You might want
to reconsider that sentence.

No classmate
raising a hand.

The dropout becomes
the teacher,

the teacher becomes
the institution,

and one morning
the man who fought the academy

discovers

he has tenure
inside his own head.