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God Might move the deadline For our Chinese script But I'm still mad at him For keeping me up At the grand hour of 11 In the evening graphing Over (and over) Again business charts that Have crooked smiles almost As blank and bleak As their returns on investment. And speaking of which, This extra eighty grand I spent At this school, ogling at textbooks I could Never work up the courage to read, Is finally starting to break my back. Weakly, I'll tell you How much I hate school— How her consonants sound synonymous To "scoliosis," And peel off my shirt and prove it to you But that would be careless. And careless is something in me hand-bound By iron clad futures and Graying dreams, Perhaps that of a dead stock broker Feet dangling off the roof of The Philippine Stock Exchange, And even then that's Straying too far from home: A cardboard box business Resting by a Tuberculosis-riddled sea.
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Nov 13, 2014
Nov 13, 2014 at 10:21 AM UTC
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God Might move the deadline For our Chinese script But I'm still mad at him For keeping me up At the grand hour of 11 In the evening graphing Over (and over) Again business charts that Have crooked smiles almost As blank and bleak As their returns on investment. And speaking of which, This extra eighty grand I spent At this school, ogling at textbooks I could Never work up the courage to read, Is finally starting to break my back. Weakly, I'll tell you How much I hate school— How her consonants sound synonymous To "scoliosis," And peel off my shirt and prove it to you But that would be careless. And careless is something in me hand-bound By iron clad futures and Graying dreams, Perhaps that of a dead stock broker Feet dangling off the roof of The Philippine Stock Exchange, And even then that's Straying too far from home: A cardboard box business Resting by a Tuberculosis-riddled sea.
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Nov 13, 2014
Nov 13, 2014 at 10:21 AM UTC
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