Troubles come and troubles bother / But boil they shall and the stress they father

Thu, 12/26/2013 - 21:25 -- cdsf23

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Round about the cauldron we go

As words, spells and incantations flow

Head my chant and quake, O legions of schools

For your doom approaches, amidst a blast of many kilojoules

 

Troubles come and troubles bother

But boil they shall and the stress they father

 

Columns, pendentives and basilica plans

Consigned to the pot amidst beat and dance

Derivatives, e and cosecant plus sine

Will add flavor, no doubt, once out this life of mine

 

Troubles come and troubles bother

But boil they shall and the stress they father

 

Speech and Debate, what horrors of competition

Cast into the broth seems to be adequate compensation

Alkaline metals, halogens and noble gases

O entropy shall increase, as from me AP Chem passes

 

Troubles come and troubles bother

But boil they shall and the stress they father

 

Congress, referendums, terms upon terms

Throw them into the pot, amidst a handful of worms

But for Beloved, Pi and Shakespeare's writing

Better in stew than in head, pounding and fighting

 

Troubles come and troubles bother

But boil they shall and the stress they father

 

But of college apps, they must be added last

For corrupting the mind that once was sweet and chaste

Harvard, Duke, Stanford and Yale

Light the lot of them, see how they can fail

 

Troubles come and troubles bother

But boil they shall and the stress they father

 

The stew is done, the works are seared

Never shall they antagonize, the evils so feared

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