Ridiculous Demands
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Dear School System:
At the droning deep, they rise and scurry
Some lolligag while others hurry
Down the halls, not distracted by breeze
Never attempting to do as they please
They aggressively avoid academic suicide
Seven hours before 3:00, seven hour after
Interpersed with moments of manufactured laughter
Laughter because they're all in the same boat
With parents and teachers and college at their throat
Molded by society, born to be Vanity's bride
To fourteen hours of work they're condemned
Can you not use the math you've taught them?
Fourteen to learn, which leaves just ten more
But science insists they need eight to snore,
Leaving two, only two. Now how does that work?
Life would be simple, if they were all robots
But universities want variety beyond what they're taught
Soccer for two hours, SAT class for five
Honing random skills they're told to archive
Twenty-nine hour days, enough to drive even you berserk.
What more from us could you possibly ask?
May I remind you, it is counterproductive to multitask...
Our expansion of time in the midst of an era most chaotic
Proves that we, the teenage species, are either idiotic
Or brilliant
Love,
Duckie