A Free Verse Poem I Found While Cleaning My Room

As I sit in the classroom
My mind screams
LET ME OUT!
This numbing repetition isn't stimulating
This prison of a class doesn't let me work!
When you can shut down entirely and still get an A
But when you are smarter then your entire class
and your GPA is 2.75
Your school is fucked.
The SYSTEM is fucked
I can't justify to myself
doing 37 problems
when there are TWO on the test
and I only need ONE to prove that I can do it.
I can't justify to myself writing an essay
on a guy who died
and doesn't interest me in the slightest.
I can't justify being a slave
a robot
Programmed to spout facts
but not being able to USE anything I know.
I need KNOWLEDGE! I need SUBSTANCE!
Not prattled facts about a dead guy
Or what the shore symbolizes
I could care less about grades
or test scores
and maybe if everyone
decided that they were fed up
If an entire school
or two
or fifty
had an average GPA of 2.75 or less
not failing
but doing only what WE care about
What WE think we will use
but still acing the tests
Maybe people will fucking WAKE UP
and realize
that when smart kids can fail a class
Even though, if you ask, they know every answer
They have learned what you have taught
They just can't justify repeating facts over and over and over again
Maybe then they'll see
All they're doing is crippling the future
Inside this "House of learning"