Monday, May 11, 2020

Extra Extra - a poem

See headlines on newspaper black font on white background
that bemoans fall of star athlete and how all potential awash
down drains. Distinction given to passing of footballs,
of a slew of extracurricular's, student senate, and four-point-o
grade point average. See, way that academic acceleration
puts pedestal under truly exceptional. How wishes of future
are deemed more worthy for people who partake of system,
who are deemed worth their weight in attention. See headline
though, on same backgrounds, in same ole font. To decipher
that a sorry sort, was sorted out into disadvantage, who
had forgotten how to do algebra, chemistry, who hadn't been
able to read. Still, tried true enough to be something higher,
psychologically beating brains to be smarter, happier, worthier,
of sorts that get exceptional feedback from parents, and not whipped,
cursed, and screwed by god-like figures. This detriment is critical
because too often American idealism sees those with weaknesses
as worthless.

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