#simmons
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Shay Caroline Simmons
“I was an ace at algebra and got A's on the exams but the teacher dinged me for always refusing to do the homework on stuff I already knew, so my final grade, despite knowing the subject, was a C”
“There's a poem in there somewhere”
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let us explicate,
even holistically diagram, said sentence,
perhaps there is GREAT
truth
lurking nearby, or in the white spaces
our eyes use to ponder, consider, and
just have fun
with childhood inequities
that yet tankle,^
and surely, rankle
what biz of mine, she bethinks,
hopefully, while sizable big, big grinning,
well the same **** rigid thinking cursed me,
‘crept the course was English,
and I took it with a very large of Sodium {Na]^^
absolut *****
there’s a poem here,
about injustice cruelty and the failure of
our educational system
but that ain’t the one I’m agonna write,
there are poems in most things, of the most us for the mundane,
but this grievance (mine too)
has too long festered
and we deserve
justice!
of the poetic kind
so, this goes out to all of us,
who sat in courses
that did not challenge us,
and the system could, would
not bend beyond
the dividing line of
measurement &
creative thinking
and yet we survived…
the irony resides
that I went onto live a livelihood
resting upon the world of figures, odds, theorems, and
positive and negatives,
but while my in my whiling away coyote days,
accepting challenges from very
accomplished writers like SCS,
ex-algebra wizardesses
go figure
*all this drivel is just a hard driven nail in the head
of those believers, that poems must be au naturel,
thinges exquisite, lustered, well-behaved,
and that is not incorrect,
yet I find the irascible symmetry that fancy tickles
in the small things, in the little ironies,
in the simple puzzles that life ample provides, like:
“There's a poem in there somewhere”
Nov 5, 2025
Nov 5, 2025 at 3:24 PM UTC