Ode To Literacy
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It's alarming
The statistics we find about:
test scores,
teen pregnancy,
underage alcohol consumption.
Because ladies and gentlemen,
two of these are shooting up
more regularly than
the homely waitress at Village Inn.
And it's not
our academics.
It's sad, really,
that more teens are
getting shit faced every weekend
and popping out offspring
than can comprehend a passage of Shakespeare
or even spell Shakespeare.
S-H-A-K-E-S-P-E-A-R-E
And I'm sorry
if I sound like a pretentious broken record
Reiterating the reasons
I'm diappointed in my own generation
Because half of my class doesn't know what
Reiterate
R-E-I-T-E-R-A-T-E
means.
So this is for the young men and women
living in the year 2013
who say
Carpe Diem
that's
C-A-R-P-E SPACE D-I-E-M
Instead of YOLO.
Who take AP classes
not only for the college credit,
but also because
if they hear
"Wait, aren't the Gangnam Style guy
and that one North Korean guy,
the one that's gonna nuke us,
aren't they the same person?"
One more time,
they will find a way to
electrocute
E-L-E-C-T-R-O-C-U-T-E
themselves with a TI-84
This is for the young men and women
Who know that
a static character
is not
a guy with a dryer sheet
stuck to his pants.
Who believe
in the power of the spoken word
like She is a God
That's right, She.
and the word God
is escaping the lips
of a Conservative
C-O-N-S-E-R-V-A-T-I-V-E
school's resident
Atheist
so you know
it's a powerful thing.
Because this
is for the young men and women
who are today silenced
s-i-l-e-n-c-e-d
by their peers
but one day
will take the world back
and place pens in fists
and demand a new
E-N-D-I-N-G