Best Drop Out Poems

I've done it again, I've overslept
I've failed to finish my homework
I've missed so many classes
that I can't recall which room
that I am supposed to go to 
and maybe I'm on the wrong floor
and oh god the wrong building?
and besides they all look the same
and besides...

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Re-live the nineteen-sixties? Don't! We all 
imagine mop-tops, surf, free love and sun, 
conveniently forgetting Watts, De Gaulle, 
the Tet Offensive, Audrey Hepburn's nun. 

Imagine! Mop-tops, surf, free love - and sun! 
Transistor radios, Italian suits! 
The Tet Offensive? Audrey Hepburn? None 
of those can...

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At school played silly truancy, 
Back came with hateful pregnancy! 
She’d just intended The Irksome.
For being by custom troublesome’….

But it was all too venturesome, 
Beauty giving a son handsome 
Plus one more prize – The Sad Gift:
From school Owner did her lift; 
From the rest...

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She made the mistake 
She left her dreams behind
Her father gone 
Her mother lost in her own world
Baby brother became her own
Partime worker 
Age 16
She started to pray day and night 
When things just didn't turn out right
Hoping a guardian angel would stop by
The day...

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Drops hit my head.
I don’t move.
I close my eyes and feel and count.
When I eat dinner, I help them organize the spoons.
After a productive day, I go back to my room.
Back to counting the drops of water.
The guards wander the halls, but they ignore us...

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