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Literature
Grade Point Average
If knowledge is power
and history saves
why does our learning breed questionless slaves?
Tests standardized
synthesized lives
each one takes with it a piece of my soul
We marvel.
So many great minds failed when they tried
or never had schooling at all
How can it be that our heroes
got so many zeros
if education determines your worth?
We marvel.
We think its the exception
when it's the rule.
For nearly the first quarter of your life
aptitude, adaptitude
it's the quiet, unindividual, who win every time
I want to be better, I want to be more
why should I care about a test score
that couldn't have less to do with what kind of person you a
Literature
nothing good happens drunk
I swayed into the kitchen. I might still be drunk, I thought sourly.
Awkwardly bending my knees, I scanned the bottom shelf of the fridge. What should you eat for a hangover? I recalled some article from Pinterest and grabbed the almost empty container of yogurt.
I found a pack of pecans and tossed some into a tiny sandwich bag. I proceeded to crush the nuts with the blunt end of a vodka bottle. Crushed pecan nuts will absorb the alcohol in my stomach, right? I thought back to my drunken stupor at the bar and cringed.
The door swung open and she walked to the sink, water bottle in hand. “I feel like complete shit,” I said. She
Literature
Changing Letters
I’ll not wait for you tomorrow
I’m done chasing down your sorrow
Have I not wasted all this time on you?
Signed my name to crooked lines for you?
I’m through resting in the gutters
With the past you labeled “Other”
Starting tonight I claim my total back
Without your fractioning, I do not lack
A single piece of me
I found my history
And all I ever really need is to
Walk out on your faulty venue
And start a new day with the letter
“I”
Because I’m tired of seeing “U”
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This is a found poem using speech and quotations from the following sources:
Duncan, Lois. Don't Look Behind You. New York: Bantam Doubleday Dell for Young Readers, 1990. 12-16, 18-19. Print.
Duncan, Lois. I Know What You Did Last Summer. Revised Paperback ed. New York: Little, Brown, 2010. 63, 66, 69-71. Print.
Duncan, Lois. Summer of Fear. 2nd ed. New York: Bantam Doubleday Dell Books for Young Readers, 1990. 76, 80-86. Print.
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