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