The Object

Teachers calling in, playing fake
Students and teachers not fully awake

Running up a zero score
Caring is just nevermore

Going through plenty of motions
The apathy fills the oceans

Assignments never coming in
Eight losses, and never a win

Athletic director is simply a pile
Cross country practice, only a mile

A cesspool in the minds of many
Evident success, there isn't any

Trying to be the top side pole
Getting through is the only goal

Even the van on the side of the road
Hasn't been stripped of parts and sold

And this isn't even the best part
The absence showdown has to start

A principled neophyte in the seat
No day down there is ever nice and neat

Always living straddled on the razor's edge
Awaiting the hit from the fifty-pound sledge

Incompetence always in transition
Nobody has a positive vision

The right way, the wrong way and the third
A rock plummeting, a dying bird

So goes the want for continuation
So goes the need for greater station

But the parasites persist on anyway
No matter the week, no matter the day

Decades pass, things stay the same
That must be the object of the game

Reviews

[Neva Flores Smith - Cha..]

P.S. Chris V. wouldn't know a good poem if it bit him on the backside. What is trite in my opinion is his 3 word reviews and reviewing 4 poems in 1 minute. What is beyond trite and is actually obscene is his use of other identities, especially the ones he uses to review his own work. Why do we still have this piece of garbage on this site? I just don't understand.

[Neva Flores Smith - Cha..]

Sometimes I wonder where intelligence has gone. What has become of our world? So many are current with the idiotic celebrities and their lives on TV but have no idea what trials their own neighbors are facing. Ken, what is our world coming to, we must stand and try to stop it. I know this is not what your poem is about but it is the direction it took me too.

[Rene Velez]

I like it, the great and ever present dangers of public schools...rhyme is cool by me.

[Muse]

The system is damned to repeat itself because once again.....government will not let the teachers do what they do best. TEACH~
The no child left behind program is crap...I know....I used to work in the system.

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oh..the world keeps turning and we keep trying to hang on in there, you nailed the apathy..

[Libby]

This brings thoughts of schools in poor areas which are just giving the factory fodder somewhwere to sit til they turn 16 and gain the grand old 'worth' of minimum wage.

[Tkess]

Teachers who don't give a s**t, teaching students who couldn't care less. It is quite a shame.

[realmwriter]

No need to change when sheep are so much more comfortable conforming to the every whim of a society that couldn't care less. Very good write brother!

[Ruth]

This is real and well thought out...yup...sounds like good old conformity...excellent love xoxo