Poetry Forum

It’s the idiocy,
I think,
that keeps me
coming back:

the tight sundresses
stretched equally
over ample nineteen
year old breasts
and forty-year old
cellulite: much more
than an eyeful every time.

So I grab up my books,
overpriced, but great decorations—
the ones I’ll never open—
and saunter off to class
like an avid pupil: ready
for learning, yearning for
knowledge and a better
future…

But it’s the fools that make the
game erratic enough to play
twice.

I’ll sit quietly for a while in the
back. Ace the class and have a
good laugh at the lemmings
marching over the cliff;
believing altogether:
education is the key.

Not for me...

Instead:

Give me nepotism, or inherited wealth.

good combo of cynicism and humor, last line cracked me up.

you might reconsider the ellipse... I use them all the time and then force myself to undergo the painful ellipsiectomy

just a suggestion.

thanks for the laugh

(is there another little animal that leaps to its own doom? poor lemmings always get the rap. btw, I think it might be a myth. Pretty sure National Geographic chased them off to set up the scene)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemming shows the myth busted...but I'd say keep the lemming reference; it's what it represents, not the scientific accuracy of the comment.

My crit is tellyness in the third stanza. I think the same things could have been illustrated for us, not just told. Loved the humor though. I agree with the opinion of the poet wholeheartedly here.

- willie

It's all been said above, but I just had to add my bit and agree. Loved this one, cynicism and humour. Glorious last line. Remembered images. Good laugh. Leslie.

"Give me nepotism, or inherited wealth"

Definiely an easier ride, but oh how the soul suffers.

Good read.

hehe

My astronomy prof this summer bragged to us that he'd gotten his job through nepatism. That's what ya get at a junior college.

Ironicaly, this is one of your least pedantic works.

I like this one, as I tend to like all of yours that are set in the here and now.

(is there another little animal that leaps to its own doom? poor lemmings always get the rap. btw, I think it might be a myth. Pretty sure National Geographic chased them off to set up the scene)

Well there's sheep...but they seem a tad overused as well.