quid pro quo

Egregious tenure

Tenuous freedom

Fascism deceives

Communism controls

Results all the some

Big brothers virtual guarantee

Freedoms contractual obligations

Academic sterilization

Thought police frog steps criticizers out

First targets are opponents

Cleansed by fire

Books tossed on the flames

The formula of control

Those considered inferior uneducated

And malnutritioned

Breaching the civil contract

Egregious tenure

Tenuous freedom

Big brothers formulated strategy

Determine what they teach

Terminate opponents rigorously

Heinrich Heine’s poem destined to burn too

Sanitize the books

Imprison the inferior and dehumanize

Silence the deans’ quid pro quo

Engage in a free flow of ideas