School.

To give you some background information, last year, school was total hell for me. Sorry to swear, if it offends you, but it's true. I pretty much failed everything. Well, I'm over-exagerrating, but yeah, that's what happened. It got a lot of good poems out of me, including School is a Comic Book.

Room 14 (07.02.08)
The place where we
were supposed to be having
the best years of our lives...
but instead ended up applying
to schools everywhere.
Where we made the best of friends,
but also the worst enemies.
The place where we couldn't stand,
but loved at the same time.

Perfection (o7.02.08)
In your world,
maybe there is perfection...
...where you do all your homework,
and get 100% on all the tests.
But you know what?
In the world of teenagers,
there's no such thing
as perfection.
We don't always do our homework,
and we can't get 100% on every single test.
All we care about it
doing well in our video games
and making sure that special
boy or girl
likes us back.
We care about what we're
doing over the weekend,
and where our lost cell phone is.
We care about our family and friends,
and the music we listen to.
We don't care about
pulleys and levers,
and how they work.
We don't care about
biological diversity
or
what happens in space.
So what do you
keep pushing
perfection on us?
It's not gonna happen.