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things i learned in school


1. the jerk gets the girl 2. because i said so is an unacceptable answer 3. teacher can i go to the bathroom is an unacceptable question 4. in group projects ... trust no one 5. you cant look up the answer 6. if you fail an exam your less than average 7. if the answer if wrong you always have to explain why 8. you find out who youre friends are 9. i wanna go home 10. im always tired things i learned in life 1. the guy with money gets the girl 2. because i said so starts a fight 3. boss can i go to the bathroom is still an unacceptable question 4. in group projects ... TRUST NO ONE 5. you can always look up the answer 6. if you fail at something they find something you cant 7. if there answer is wrong your not obligated to tell them why 8. you know who your friends are 9. i wanna go home 10. im always tired but heres what i know people tell me that education is the key but dont tell me that the door has long been sealed by men's greed and im considered a problem but they dont understand im a product of a system they created i wish we were all equal but i know we use each other as step ladders because we all want to be first but we're taught he who is first shall come last but where does the guy in the middle stand because to them just because im not dirt poor mens i dont need any aid because to them just because im not the top of my class means im not worth the investement so heres to the man who couldnt go to college because he couldnt catch a ball 10x better than everyone else so heres to the man who couldnt go to college because he made the right decisions in life so heres to the man who couldnt go to college because his parents actually went before him but no matter how loud i speak the system wont change because in this world i am no longer a person im a number in school im known by 6 digits to the government im known by 9 my birth name doesnt matter just the date and the time to colleges and businesses i am just a risk with a high probabilty of failure to the law im just a statistic on a page that proves their right about a certain race based on a percentage to women , men are congruent because all we want is to divide and multiply from you a product of kids we wont raise, right? and these imaginary numbers are suppose to tell me my maximum potential but based on the color of my skin its just a minimum projection i dont care what you say the accuracy of these numbers is so far from true im an algorithm too complex for any human to solve with numbers my goals are at such a high altitude that not even a space shuttle could reach them and when i find that one special woman that has been walking parallel to my life that has now become perpindicular so when we intersect we will walk the same line and she will know that i am X divided by Zero ... undefined , that i can be irrational and impossilbe but will understand if she tries to solve me with numbers she will crash into a median and find no solution so life wont get better till we converse in a way that forms a postive correlation , till we start seeing each other as people instead of integers till we subract the numbers from Algebra and start to form words from the letters because thats what defines us WORDS ... not numbers
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