Went to elementary school orientation, for my daughter
Like that will help
School is such a joke, as if it will prepare children for life
Ridicule and bullying and not being popular or loved or
Even liked,
Prepared me for suicide

What stops some from calling it quits?
It was not the crowded halls of name calling
It was not the bumping and shoving, like cattle in a chute
Off to slaughter, off to slaughter
What stops some of us from calling it quits?

I picked up some school supplies, printed on a list
What was of use, in my mind? The empty journals and lined paper
Not for assignments or equations, but for drawing and writing
What hate could only be turned inward
Volumes and volumes of hate, illustrated
My memoirs of school