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A Poetic Commentary: Tick Tock Goes The Clock

Tick Tock Goes The Clock Melondy: Issues of Adolescence Series

Tick Tock Goes The Clock
Melondy: Issues of Adolescence Series

Tick Tock Goes The Clock 

    and it never wants to stop

    even if I drop…

THE PURCHASE PRICE

    one I know I have to pay

    but is it worth everything they say?

THE TIME TRAP

    this cage that drowns me beneath the never-ending waves

    who is the master and who are the slaves?

Overboard

    this ship’s capsized over me

    it’s no whale of a time in this sea

A Letter for Daria

    another message in a bottle?

    but I’m still caught in this current, full throttle

How could you do that?! 

    take time from work

    they’d call you a shirk!

Happiness Sold Separately

    gotta read the fine print

    the way I’m swimming, apparently I didn’t

never again once more

    it’s high time I come up for some air

    but it’s high tide, and I’ve got so much to do down there

 

A Poetic Commentary: All That Glitters . . .

All That Glitters . . . Melondy: Issues of Adolescence Series

All That Glitters . . .
Melondy: Issues of Adolescence Series

All That Glitters . . .

    isn’t gold

    despite what I’ve been told

ENGLISH IN ACTION

    journals, reports, term papers - writing
       my way

    to the top. . . except for that last essay

SMART WOMEN

    that’s what I’m supposed to be

    but be it a standard so high, I’m only
       a wannabe

CONTROLLED CHEATING

    but it’s only for the grade

    what does learning matter, when it’s the GPA that’s weighed?

HOW TO STOP WORRYING AND START LIVING

    perhaps I shouldn’t be so uptight

    but even the idea of failure gives me such a fright!

Organizing from the Inside Out

    easier said than done

    where would I even start while on the run?

A Day Late and a Dollar Short

    thought the rat race didn’t start till after I graduated

    guess that golden idea is now antiquated

TO BE THE BEST

    oh, if only it were true

    but even being summa cum laude leaves me feeling blue