After Slumber (x)

EDUCATION – scored in triplicate -
meaning wage-elevation through sponsored
cramming, telegraphically assessed
by barcode reader. What distills attainment
from accomplishment? Must we enhance
our bride-price by attending typing school?
Brave of you to bunk off and go marching:
I wouldn’t have; wrote poems in free periods
instead, or bandied gay rights with the C.
U., citing celibates’ vocation.
Those who can’t, make policy. Enframe
teen heroine in sketch of cordoned dust-up -
defence claims schoolgirl rioters hormonal,
depraved by music, possibly heartbroken.

One Response to “After Slumber (x)”

  1. DavidAA Says:

    schoolgirl rioters…depraved by music

    This makes me think of the band Lolita Storm, who said they got their name from some headline about a riot at a private girls’ school. Does anyone know any details about whether this ever really happened? I assumed it was a story they made up.

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