whiling away the English hour by Leah Garrison

I speak English pretty well.
I can read it, write it,
parse it and rhyme it.
so why am I in "English" class?

we have a smallish orange
flimsy paperback
vocabulary book.
I know every word in it
and it's not filled with many.
if it knew what words I know
it would cower in shame
for attempting to pass itself off
as a respectable
vocabulary book.

we have a largish blue
brown-papered hardcovered
English textbook.
the poems are mindless
and the stories dull.
reading this book, one would think
that those who write in English
have no soul.

I have written one novel
one novella
started eight others
finished two short stories
and scratched out
a potpourri of poems.
when there is peer editing in class
others start a stack on my desk
because they know when I
put red ink to black type
it transforms into a perfect rainbow
and their paper is saved from the teacher's damnation.

so why am I still here?
I teach more English
than my English teacher does.
what's a proper metaphor?
what's a gerund?
how do you spell this?
who wrote Brave New World
and what is that book's theme?
I can teach the others because
I know everything in this class.

so why am I still here?

I'm bored
and they won't let me out.

Dang it all. I'm stuck.

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by Leah Garrison (Age: 20)
copyright 06-15-2004

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