We’re Not Allowed to Take it Out of Class

The Scratch Paper We Used for the Math Tests

We’re Not Supposed to Discuss Those Word Problems

Or Give Off Any Answers

To Those Who Had Yet to Take the Exams

On the Scratch Paper We Put Down Our Thoughts, Those

Formulas Written Wrong

The Final Page of the Test, with the Hardest Questions, the Uneducated, Guesses

We’d, Used the Methods of Solving, along with the Plans We’d, Given Up on

After the Class Period,

Nobody Will Need Those Scratch Papers Anymore

like, this???

They’re Only Saved in the Temporary, Present-Tense

They’d Allowed Us to Crumple up Those Sheets, Toss

Them All Away

Continuing on in Our Lives

Until the Very End,

They Will All Suddenly, Come Back

To Between All of Us

To Our Deathbeds

Those Present Tense, Crumpled Up

Those Things that the Poets Would, Need

And so, this, is on how useless those things we’d learned in school, tested over on those exams became to us in life, and, in the end, all the knowledge we’d learned, all those perfect A-pluses, amounted to, absolutely, N-O-T-H-I-N-G!!!