Ode: This days genius

What I know to perfect perfection
Always brings a total rejection.

What I know less to perfect manipulation
Always brings the best of excellence.

Well graded in trees of substance
Are you here to take the chance?

Well: exams are inverse intelligence
Aristocrat can’t make it if he was born now.

We learn in times of a word for a word
A genius this day is in a state of confusion.