The Perfect Poem : Detention
in school halls the length of the land
after the final bell, by the thousand
taken by some strict schoolmaster
who is determined they will go faster
the perfect poem is being created
but teachers are obviously not elated
because these poems are a punishment
a system designed as a detriment
to pupils who would have otherwise
fooled and played up in disguise
time is what is taken from them
in the form of after hours detention.
these perfect poems in the form of lines
written out (usually) one hundred times
or as many times possible in the space
of sixty minutes that they must face
lines normally befitting the offence
where total denial was the stock defence
lines guaranteed to make arms ache
eyelids heavy but must..stay..awake
line upon line upon line the same
till only a few more blanks remain
“I must not, will not, can not too”
lines upon a page that rhyme true.
23.4.2011
Copyright © Neil Johns | Year Posted 2022
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