rush-rush-rush (college)
Posted: Thu Oct 27, 2005 5:36 pm
Flyers flutter unhinged from their perch
they tell you not to be too clever
for others own this place, leaving you in lurch
if you think you came at the right time
it's not the ivory tower you thought
sky scraping minds have passed here sure
but their looking down on you in the parking lot
while poster pasters, scream along, earning by the hour
even the library, with its ancient dust
and compressed pages, cripples your soul
for people force you: you must
place figment futures of glory in reserve
hours collapse and time presses short
plastic spastic fingers shutter too late
for the next class is-
they tell you not to be too clever
for others own this place, leaving you in lurch
if you think you came at the right time
it's not the ivory tower you thought
sky scraping minds have passed here sure
but their looking down on you in the parking lot
while poster pasters, scream along, earning by the hour
even the library, with its ancient dust
and compressed pages, cripples your soul
for people force you: you must
place figment futures of glory in reserve
hours collapse and time presses short
plastic spastic fingers shutter too late
for the next class is-