Zero Slum Game

By: Charles Giuliano - Dec 04, 2021

 

Zero Slum Game

By law of averages
Most students are mediocre
They cluster in the middle
The old C Plus
Now ubiquitous B
The bottom fails
Or should at least
Until recently
So long to meritocracy
Add to that privilege
Leveled playing field
Parents and deans
Angry teens
Self entitlement
Culture of blame
Dog ate my homework
You know the drill
That hectoring refrain
Hey professor
Are you going to
Curve the test
No way I’d say
Try harder
Do the work
Don’t be a jerk
Let’s be fair
Isn’t that me too
Taking short cuts
Farting around
Days sliding by
Not much to
Show for it
Guilty as charged
Where are my great works
Piled high to the ceiling
Mastering languages
Reading the classics
In the original
Perfectly possible
With decent effort
Arguably I flunk
My own exam
Art of the scam
Sit in the corner
Like a dunce
We live however
In the information age
Why cram all
Those facts and figures
Easier to Google it
Gobble up on line
Wicked Wikipedia
Check CNN and market
Eagle, Times, Globe
Keeping up on stuff
World of knowledge
At our beck and call
Hey Siri give me
Quote from Euripides
Quotidian Greeks
Line from Homer
Spliced into this
Or that thesis
Bits and pieces
Sound bites
Thumbnails of knowledge
Leather bound Cliffnotes
Not the real thing
Why colleges are
Ditching libraries
Who needs books
When you can
Get a diploma on line
Win big on Jeopardy
The genius of Rain Man
Counting spilled tooth picks
Or as Diogenes said
Dogs and philosophers
Do the greatest good
And get the fewest rewards
Zero Slum Game