the elephant in the room

 

are we dismantling the ivory tower?

the world has to be out of pie in the sky

or the materialization of dreams 

inevitably happens.

so we are soon out of pie

yet dreams ultimately manifest.

so the ivory tower,

as far as it can reach into the sky,

is it realized as just a tall building.

and now we concern ourselves 

with the muddledom of its occupancy.

ivory tower candidates get first choice.

so what is that criteria for selection?

okay, who composes the panel

to create those selection priorities?

then what is the administrative means used

in the necessary selection process?

soon there is a collection 

of procedural folks present.

they actual don't have a clue

about what an ivory tower consists of

or what it might be even imply.

eventually, it is discovered 

that there are no ivory tower experts.

ivory tower occupants don't have expertise

in the composition of ivory elements. 

they are just predisposed to be ivory folks.

it is antithetical to them 

as a working concept called dismantlement.

so there are ivory towers, 

inevitably around.

but they are generally disregarded 

as relevant.

so much so, that they are not 

any more admitted 

to have a physical manifest 

worth bothering about.

if there are ivory tower potential candidates,

they quietly live lives away from attention.

some never leave their own heads.

and eventually the phenomenon 

as identifiable,

totally disappears, 

both as a working reference point

and as an actual occurrence 

in a humanity format of existence.

and so the dismantlement of an ivory tower

was really leaving it quite alone.

thereby leaving it 

to its own inconsequential manifest devices.

and eventually 

without adequate mental terrain.

it's last thought was eventually 

the last elephant in the room,

and also its last breath,

before extinction 

replaces disappearing memories . . .