| Wearing the beautiful silver ring my mother gave me
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| Suddenly a bite… as my fishing rod fell to the floor
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| Along with the label-less empty can of some processed vegetable
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| That had propped it up…
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| Our holy father is probably closer to the horseshoe crab than say… Jupiter
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| Or so I’ve been… i can’t believe what I’ve been taught to take note of as
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| precious
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| From the Pledge of Allegiance on down to the correct spelling of success
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| I don’t dream in cursive or standardized rigamaroling utility
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| Powerful being scoffs at dog ears and near
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| Truths smeared between index and appendix… but heck
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| I’m smart now and at least the lunches were hot…
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| George Washington, Woodrow Wilson, Baton Rouge, Louisiana
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| Texas the Longhorn State, refraction of light in the earth’s atmosphere
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| Triceratops, a-e-i-o-u and sometimes…
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| There’s no such thing as a dumb question
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| «Out damn spot», p.e.m.d.a.s., cosine of a 90 degree angle is Zero
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| «Et tu brute», whales and dolphins are people too
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| The Civil War was something to be proud of
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| Subject, prepositional phrase, predicate
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| And size order was only… the beginning
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| So I wonder, has my doodling suffered…
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| Who misses covering their textbooks
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| Authority figures folded hands silence…
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| Brainwashing is educational…
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| We, the schoolboard and the church and state
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| Acting on behalf of our sponsors…
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| Are here to protect you… all of you
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| From drugs and the slightest knowledge of sole purpose…
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| I never had a problem with cheating…
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| Upon receipt of your son and daughter’s scores
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| You may find him or her to be more than
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| Apt above average in kind of… well the following
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| I want my unicorn back…
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| And that last wish for an infinite amount of wishes…
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| The damned, the difficult, and the testable material…
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| That’s funny… yours says good job too…
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| I’m so bad with the names Of Mice and Men…
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| Huh huh… he's so creative… but he’s no xl-57
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| These completely complacent self-sufficient offspring
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| Can be confined and reconfigured to appear
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| As any of the three sexes and have a complete record of
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| Every single thing there ever is and will be…
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| Fist fights… the twisted torture of social acclimation…
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| Bells clang to segment the fun-filled artificial day further
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| As several hundred Galapagan sea turtles line up to enter the building…
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| If you give them all different names and teach them all the same
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| Thing… the earth turns into toffee…
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| And you can find out how good people really, really are…
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| Static and cold… my formative years
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| Were spent projecting myself outside that window
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| From chair with a desk bolted to it
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| Bolted to it the sacrificial billy goat accepted
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| What had been pounded through it…
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| And the next person who encourages me…
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| Not to write in the first person gets left back
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| In case of fire, quietly and in an orderly fashion
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| Form a single file line in the front of the class
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| And wait for your instructor, facing the door
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| Continue towards the north stairwell
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| Then proceed calmly and quickly towards the nearest exit
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| Leave your bags and coats behind kindly… thank you
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| You can’t tell me I’m not good at math
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| Poor writer my…
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| I’ve got 25 jumping jacks left and two big circles to run in…
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| Don’t want to be late for attentive head nodding and tie tying class…
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| Present in six months, I’ll be a college graduate…
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| And then I’m gonna be… mr., dr., police, fire, space man
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| Ballerina, zookeeper, cowboy, president of the united states…
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| What are you gonna be…
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| Infected affected dyslexic skeptic disconnected just what they we are you
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| expected
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| Memorize that… I before E, except after C…
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| Wearing the beautiful silver ring my mother gave me
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| I see an assembly of these hideous curriculum monsters
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| Sharpening coccyx bones on a splintering rickety loom
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| All in a light grey auditorium through a knot in a boarded up window
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| That was painted shut by Satan and his vice principals |