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What use is academic aptitude to a pauper?
What will he feed his family? Grammar, precise and proper?
Shall he buy his books with alms, wear his knowledge like a coat,
stuff his hovel with the words being shoveled down his thoat?
Will literature and legible penmanship serve
to provide him with stanima? Will they grade him on a curve
based upon his wit? Will he wthstand his trauma?
Will his dire straits permit time to write his drama?
Is the ignoble face he wears while facing welfare issues
disgrace him, wiped on sleeve in lieu of box of tissues?
When the unemployment line is longer every day
does he have time to earn a college degree before pay?
As the struggle to survive brings his soul to desperation,
the bright young mnd that was is dimmed by lack of education.
What will he feed his family? Grammar, precise and proper?
Shall he buy his books with alms, wear his knowledge like a coat,
stuff his hovel with the words being shoveled down his thoat?
Will literature and legible penmanship serve
to provide him with stanima? Will they grade him on a curve
based upon his wit? Will he wthstand his trauma?
Will his dire straits permit time to write his drama?
Is the ignoble face he wears while facing welfare issues
disgrace him, wiped on sleeve in lieu of box of tissues?
When the unemployment line is longer every day
does he have time to earn a college degree before pay?
As the struggle to survive brings his soul to desperation,
the bright young mnd that was is dimmed by lack of education.