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Miller0700 Offline
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"Out Here" (Poem)

Here's about half of a poem called "Out here" by Alana Gooden who was apart of a youth poetry slam contest last year. We read this today.

Quote:So dear teacher,
Why are you so caught up playing detective?
With your strict ways and old school methods
With your grammar checks and spelling?
Corrections?
So stuck on correcting my ways night and day that you become reckless

But I'm just doing me and I don't need sleep

So I don't care about lessons
Plus your teacher planning sessions
Because what I hold within
Can't fit in any curriculum

...So you can pop quiz me
And you can try to test me
And I'll pass
But how can you rate my overall intelligence
Through testing?

How interesting....

See what I know doesn't lie within any text book
Y=MX+B won't get me anywhere
So teach us how to deal with real life situations
Like what to do during home invasions
Or how to deal with the death of a loved one
Information
Because I can't add if a piece of my world is missing

I can't think if I have to eat food residue off the plates in my sink
Let's switch roles and I'll teach, you think
You play the student who has difficulty adding basic math
And I'll be the teacher who makes sure you pass as long as you're quiet
Never talk back or act like an ass
Or get mad when you need help with the work
Because I'm not here to give you answers

Start giving us tips and quizzes on how to survive
And teach us how to live instead of preparing us to die.
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03-29-2012 10:59 AM
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Love it...
Go to work. Send your kids to school. Follow fashion. Act normal. Walk on the pavement. Watch TV. Save for your old age. Obey the law. Repeat after me: "I am free."

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[Image: travis.jpg]

I approve of this oh so very, very much.. thanks for posting it here.
If you're reading this, I killed myself.
03-29-2012 12:51 PM
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Miller0700 Offline
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(03-29-2012 12:51 PM)Mælstrom Wrote:  [Image: travis.jpg]

I approve of this oh so very, very much.. thanks for posting it here.

NP
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(03-29-2012 12:51 PM)Mælstrom Wrote:  [Image: travis.jpg]

I approve of this oh so very, very much.. thanks for posting it here.

This
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(01-13-2012 10:37 AM)UnschoolShqiponjë Wrote:  Mike you deserve an SS medal. Here, be proud:
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Congrats for doing something I never had the balls to do.
If you have kids, save them from the bullshit you are forced to go through.
(01-25-2012 05:36 AM)UnschoolShqiponjë Wrote:  Balls of steel re-awarded. 
(02-07-2012 03:22 PM)flann Wrote:  Balls of Tungsten, now.

I found a picture for tungsten balls
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(02-14-2012 03:17 PM)Maelstrom Wrote:  Your balls are denser than white dwarf star matter.
(03-13-2012 08:27 PM)M3116 Wrote:  Balls of steel re-re-reawarded Nutter

(05-14-2013 03:01 PM)Prince Darkstar Wrote:  Dirtbikemike is the only guy I know of on here who won an argument with a teacher.
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