04-25-2013, 11:31 PM
so this one started as the instructions poem, but then I realized it really is a bitching poem. so now it's kind of both.
Big Brother’s guidelines for education
Sit those kids in endless rows of desks for one
mirror the individuality of bubble form tests
by forbidding hunched backs to group in class.
Divide those kids by month and year;
progress and preferences are naught
to their stamped date of manufacture.
Creativity is to be discouraged; lateral thinking
is a sign of future disobedience to society.
Let the stocked libraries grow dusty and vapid,
don’t show children what magic words can bring.
Above all, make learning a chore, an obvious evil,
and push them through and up and up
until those kids lag so far behind expectations
they opt to leave at sixteen.
Big Brother’s guidelines for education
Sit those kids in endless rows of desks for one
mirror the individuality of bubble form tests
by forbidding hunched backs to group in class.
Divide those kids by month and year;
progress and preferences are naught
to their stamped date of manufacture.
Creativity is to be discouraged; lateral thinking
is a sign of future disobedience to society.
Let the stocked libraries grow dusty and vapid,
don’t show children what magic words can bring.
Above all, make learning a chore, an obvious evil,
and push them through and up and up
until those kids lag so far behind expectations
they opt to leave at sixteen.
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The howling beast is back.
The howling beast is back.