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The world today is abandoning values
We are all simply numbers
An amount, a score, a grade
What categories do we fall under?
4.0? You're a great person
3.0? You're like the rest
Why is it,
That no matter how hard you try at it,
It's only about the grades today?
No matter if you get it or not
Or what knowledge you've got!
It's only about the grades today.
I am not a number,
I will not conform to a game.
I am not a test,
I will not feel the shame.
I will make you know my name.
You aren't my friend
You haven't even tried.
I am the number Twenty Seven,
Etched into my soul, my worth
is that of High School drivel and
recurring bile that settles behind
toothy chagrin. Twenty Seven, I
am nothing more than a limited
