Agent Crayola Orange

(by exasperated request - oh please, I new poem for me. It’s the last 7 days of school -urban hell City of Richmond. Kids are screaming, teachers need medication, SOLs are
threatening, and to top it off, a kid spread boogers on my shirt. If that
doesn’t deserve a poem, what does.)
This last seven days
In Urban Hell
Is [...]

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Higher Learning

(by request - “Why/how 10 year-olds are stupid/hilarious.” And, obviously, the blame goes to Internet speak abbreviations.)
There once was a ten-year-old student
Whose manners were mostly quite prudent.
But when asked to do math,
She’d erupt into wrath,
Over learning what, like, “two plus two” meant.
When this girl went home (rather later),
She’d sit down with her calculator,
And with rapid [...]

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