Supercourse Ode by Francis Ohanyido

An Ode:

An Ode to BA SuperDesk

Awakening
The Empiricist’s Song gone West
The Sphinx, a silent shadow of the East
The Pyramid , a patient witness

Awakening
From the Obelisk of Knowledge
The Great Ankh, we took
And Euclid’s secrets, laid bare
Piercing Apathy’s Heart
Banishing Fear’s torment
In the brightness of Ra
Looking into the Nile
A memory of research
Now desert of publications

Awakening
We looked forlornly
From Lagos to Karachi
…And beyond
A story of dearth
And death of the researcher
An elegy to another age

Awakening
Does one not ask?
Why have we faltered?
Why have we declined?
 And Ron answered “stataphobia”
Holding a scroll of hope
For stataphobia is a deadly curse
Anathema to better research

   Awakening
We invoked the Muse
Herald of ancient calls
From the hallowed Halls
Echoing off the walls
In labyrinthine chants
From the City of Alexander
And knowledge rose
From its trove

Rising
In the Epidemiological Grail
In the Cauldron of Supercourse
Served in the New Age Chalice
 By many a thousand Wiseman
In ‘empiricician cascade’
Of Sage and Acolyte
Returning statistics
From the verge
Wikified...
Simplified...
 A Synergy
Of minds and methods

Rising
BA SuperDesk
A bane to stataphobia is born
In the dawn of a New Spring
Do you have a question for these Wisemen?

By Francis Ohanyido 2013