Kanye looked at college
and saw a building
selling permission.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Stand here. Read this. Pass that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He called the first record
The College Dropout<\/p>\n\n\n\n
and made leaving school
sound like a kind
of enrolment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Professors had office hours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Kanye had drums.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The next one called
Late Registration,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And next called Graduation,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Maybe there is danger
declaring yourself
your own university.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
No professor saying,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
You might want
to reconsider that sentence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
No classmate
raising a hand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The dropout becomes
the teacher,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
the teacher becomes
the institution,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
and one morning
the man who fought the academy<\/p>\n\n\n\n
discovers<\/p>\n\n\n\n
he has tenure
inside his own head.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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