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Public education

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOP P is for public Public education Where learning begins at the metal detectors Detecting what can’t be brought in Never scanning deep enough to decipher the pain If the machine could really see what we bring to school It would sound the alarm. This generation is full of dreamers Listen to your youth No longer will we hide The only thing we are guilty of bringing to school is our imagination We snuck visions up our sleeve   And in our mouths we have hidden tongues Blades of truth This is a rally cry. Things have got to get better Im afraid, that I’ll be stuck here like the hands on the clock of my classroom Why don’t any of the clocks work? A clock that goes silent is a dangerous thing No tick tick tick To tell you how much time has been wasted No tick tick tick To tell you how much time is left Im ticked and stuck. Stuck like the gum on the steps The sticky left overs of thrown away lunches Candy wrappers

A Stubborn Heart Is Deaf and Blind

The most annoying thing in the world is to have people trying to seduce you and be with you after you repeatedly have said no.  I mean for God's sake, The more I run the more they find me we can be friends and no I don't mean --friends with benefits--, I mean actual friends, and no I don't mean --friends now and maybe date later-- no, I don't care for it, I don't want it, I am not looking for it. So, don't call me 'baby' because we never established a 'baby' relationship if in fact a relationship at all. Shit, you use 'baby' so loosely I begin to think its a meaningless term for you to count your conquests.      But you don't need to conquer me because I am no land, no property, I belong to myself and I am in no desire to be in your list of cross-outs and question marks. Call me arrogant but that's just because you're mad at the fact I am not giving you what you want, which in fact it only proves your disrespect toward