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Rejoicing

January 8, 2017
By Anonymous

Wolves in children's clothing

At each other's throats,

Seven hours a day, five days a week.

Over-the-top

charisma and confidence

Fuels the daily feuds and tiffs.

Attitudes clash

With the same hostility

As rabid dogs.

 

Snipes and jabs fly between mouths,

The teachers' voices drowned out.

Cliques form like tribes,

That divide the student body

Into student cells.

Every moment,

Somewhere in this building,

Is in resemblance

Of an episode

From a second-rate soap opera.

 

But when word

Of a cancelled school day

Circulates the stormy atmosphere,

There is rebound,

There is reunion,

There

Is

Rejoicing.

There i



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