These are several poems I wrote in the time remaining after I finished my exams. I have just gotten around to compiling them. I am a quick exam taker, so I generally had at least an hour in which to sit around, listen to my iPod, and attempt to recover. I have not edited any of these in order to preserve their loopy quality.
Enjoy!
Stupid Clock
It ticks
Then it tocks
Hands do not stop
Yet change it does not
Why has that stupid clock
Made time stop
Minutes dripping by
Like the leak
Of a frozen faucet
None.
I want to leave
I need reprieve
From this monotony
This air is stale
Full of dead brain cells
I’m choking on them
Eyes are burning
Feet are numb
No flavor left in my gum
And of my exams
This is only the first one
Fun.
Losing Focus
Thoughts drifting
Attention shifting
Losing concentration
I’m bored really
Teach me something
I do not know
My essays are fine
Writing is my medium
Just let me
Go to sleep
Your voice
Fingernails on chalkboard
My mind
Fuzzy and numb
Give me the prompt
And let’s move on
Before my semblance
Of awakeness is gone
Leave Me Alone
It’s too much
For three days
Too much
To memorize
To do
To write
To bubble in
I’m so stressed
So much to do
Too little time
Cram it all in
Every last bit
My patience
Is on end
Just let me be
No more questions
I have no
Answers left
You’ve taken them all
Treat them well
They are the only ones
I had
STOP!
Just sit still
Stranger next to me
I’m trying to do well
Can you not see?
Perhaps you want to fail
Less I could not care
I will not fail because of you
That would not be fair
Giving Up
Almost there
Do I dare
Have hope to see the sun?
One more to go
The one I didn’t study for
I’m seeing fs galore
Oh well
Yesterday I cared
Today I’m bared
Of any academic aspirations
Verse Not Prose 