White Copy Paper

A piece of slam poetry. New style I decided to try out. I'm hoping the formatting stays because otherwise it'll be tough to understand.

 

White Copy paper

 

Let’s outline our High School Experience

In just ONE page.

Trick the teacher and set it to 9.5 font

And include all the meat n’ potatoes

We can fit.

Adjust the margins enough that we don’t

Go over the MAXIMUM       

But don’t overdo it,

Teacher, Teacher might see a personal,

Altered

Not-so-cloned piece of

White, copy paper.

 

So what if our desks are arranged

In neat, identical rows of identical desks

Which hold the not-so-identical YOU and I,

We- We are allowed to show who we are,

Where we come from,

What we think/ What we say/ Who we like/ Who we hate

But only through BLACK ink and

Times New Roman, 12 point font on

White, copy paper.

 

But are we copies of one another?

Our parents never committed copyright infringement

By using the same mold without

Permission or patents to create progress without patience.

Plagiarism was never found on their pieces of

White, copy paper.

 

So let’s just copy and paste

Our thoughts from our brains

And let’s be daring and say

What we really think about your rubrics/ Your report cards/ Your status reports

Give me a zero on that paper/ It’s too late to give you my opinion on

White, copy paper.

 

So, let me set this up in terms/ that maybe they can understand:

There is not a classroom on the planet

That can teach us what’s important. / Only

the facts, / Cold, hard facts

On 32 cloned pieces of

White, copy paper.

Author's Note

It isn't about grammar or whatever, it's supposed to be spoken aloud so it's a little cryptic

Reviews

[J Carly]

Well, sis...I LOVE IT. Thanks for entering this one in my contest. I love slam poetry, and this is EXACTLY how I remember high school. I felt seventeen again as I read it! You've used your creative license well in this piece. Well done!

"But only through BLACK ink and
Times New Roman, 12 point font on
White, copy paper"

I used to hand in assignments printed in Comic Sans, 10 point font on Green copy paper. Just because I felt like being a pain in the a*s. But perhaps your approach was better, since I lost half credit on those assignments for my trouble. ha.

[John McGrael]

this is super cool type

this is exactly how i feel about high school... but im still in high school...
so its kind of an issue xD

[Jason Henry]

i really enjoyed this poem! sounds like something i would have done in high school! thanks for sharing!

[thecoolone52]

yeah i really liked this one... in highschool they only accept certain molds and so forth and you hit that on the head... about being creative and such..... nice smash on highschool teachers....