Getting Schooled

This post was scheduled to be published on 12/15/2013

Acrostic – a poem or series of lines in which certain letters, usually the first, form a name or motto.

American Heritage College Dictionary

Hotep,

Professor Anathea Portier – Young has become a much-welcomed fixture of my creative writing class.  Today’s session (12/4/2013) was the professor’s third appearance since the origin of this literary quest.  She has yet to disappoint.  Real talk.

Exploring the motivations of the authors, of the books of Isaiah and Lamentations, in the Old Testament scriptures of the Bible.  Professor Portier-Young encouraged the class to engage in the acrostic style of written prophecy and funeral songs within God’s holy word.

It took less than an hour for me to come up with the appropriate acrostic expression.  At one time, MannoStat was merely a pen name.  As you witness this evolvement from pen name – to the praxis for capital punishment – recognize that MannofStat is a brand like no other.  Ya heard?  So, here’s this weeks written assignment: 

MannofStat: An acrostic of Hope and Amazement

M- Managing time when time is most unkind.

A - Alleviating stress through written expression, while awaiting the correction of the state’s transgression.

N – Noticing each sunrise as the Creator’s fresh start.

N – Never letting go of the hope that magnifies this art.

O – Ostentatiously, but patiently, revealing a thirst to reach the ears that make up the mass, majority of an upstanding societal class.  Not the first or the worst.  Not the best or the last.  Just open minds welcoming new finds.

F – Forensics lie in my path.  My truth tramples their math.  2 * 2 = 4, but the state’s murderous allure can’t swipe away the fact that my blood, sweat and fingerpirnts don’t add up to murder.

S – Surviving through the ink within, this pen, when dying to relinquish all hopes of freedom is the primary option, capitulation can be a deadly spin.

T- Testing the waters of fate, by expounding on acts of injustice and the practice of law taught in a classroom of hate.  But wait! 

Does that make me the bait for the state to consume, and then resume, the Mann – eating practices of this present date?

A – Always attentive to the course set before me.  My travels selectively permit alliance within a red sea of defiance. 

Water my seed; fulfill my hunger;

grant my need to never go under.

T – Taking nothing for granted.  Everything I do has value from this day forth. 

The crime of silence is an exploitation of violence. 

My scream for justice roars throughout the Net. 

Touching people in places that some may consider cosmic spaces.

My Word is to the Masses.  It’s much too late for the order of gag.

Going beyond the fence is now past tense.

Every branch of God’s tree of life is a root of the MannofStat snag.

Fruitfully 100,

MannofStat

Copyright © 2013 by Leroy Elwood Mann