Geopolitics, Class Dissmissed

• Miranda Glen, Grade 8
• Poetry
• 2020

Golden trophies won by high school bullies
attacking the morals of science teachers
on the defense if even the slightest amount of common sense is apparent
for how can others have what you cannot?
Long vacations taken by class clowns
so conveniently wagging
knowing that now the team is waiting for them, left to fend alone
without the leader they voted for
Atomic bombs belonging to primary school ruffians
‘testing’ them on the last to dob
making sure that their group of social dominions stay under control
through the fear you so shamelessly built up
They seem to take it no more seriously than kindergarten squabbles
schoolboys playing with tanks and planes
while we wait in anticipation
for the school bell of sanity to ring