School

         Yes, sometimes, it can be useful, you learn a thing or two.  But mostly I feel that it's a useless waste of time.  Too bad I can't just quit, because here it's a crime.  I want out of here, I feel like a caged animal or a prisoner, in jail.  Why should I have to learn where the states are, or even about the cell? I don't plan on being a doctor, or even drawing maps.  Why can't I just not care perhaps? 
        
          Yes, I understand I need to be able to read and write, and it's nessessary to be able to add, subtract, multiply, and divide.  But only to my reader, I'd like to confide, I don't like school, and that is that, and if I could I'd quit, right now, at the drop of a hat. 

         Even when I'm here, I'm bored half of the time.  Some parts of school are sweet, but stuff like algebra, and P.E. is bitter like an orange peel, or the pulp of a lime.  If there were some other way to get out of here, without quitting, because I don't want to be considered a loser.

          Maybe I'll finish, no that doesn't work.  I'm tired of being around some of these people, and a few of them are jerks.  Maybe I could study, study, study, and study.  Maybe I could practice this stuff, enough, and hopefully pass the GED.

         Yes, I know, all that studying will be tiring, and I'm sure it will be tough, but I believe in myself, and I know I can do it, no matter what anyone says.

Summer

          It' what every student longs for, as they sit in a cold classroom, staring at the clock, listening to a boring teacher yack on about useless stuff they will never use again.  It's what you can close your eyes, and picture, yourself on a beach, as the sun dances across the ocean and drops of water tiptoe across your skin.  It's what makes you feel as if you are dreaming, and though you don't want to pench yourself for fear that you will awaken, you don't want it to end.  It's summer, it allows you to sleep in, it doesn't make you do anything.  Its what fills your life with peace, and allows you to unwind.  It's the drifting season, that allthough you wish it would never go, moves away, but comes again.

          It's summer, while you have it, enjoy it with your family, and friends.