10/06
The exit sign is taunting me.
It bores down on me,
Mercilessly contorting its shell into comic expressions
Behind the professor’s back.
What an existence it leads.
How great, how enviable,
As it blares out its purpose
24/7
in that universal
red-as-the-devil
CAPITALIZED font.
It is schoolyard bully.
It is executioner.
It is savior.
How ironic, that it should be placed
Next to the clock,
That grinning bastard-
The exit sign the ship to the promised land,
And the clock the chains that bind me here.
It juts out of the wall in a proud glory,
It’s letters barely contained by its rectangular frame-
It is the Japanese flag,
The Red Cross station,
The universal symbol for escape.
But- so defined in its role,
I pity it.
Proclaimer of freedom,
But trapped in its eternal duty,
It taunts me out of hate.
For after my torture, I am free to leave,
To cross under its glowing, bloody threshold, and yet-
IT shall linger on.
It commands the masses to do what it cannot,
To conquer the world while it remains a prisoner.
With its purpose discovered, and so universally cemented,
It is doomed.
It cannot grow, nor evolve.
No life, no change-
It may as well be dead.
It does not exist,
It is an ex-it,
With no exit.
So therefore, taunt away you inglorious block,
For I shall follow your command with my head held high.
I will leave and fade away
As your scarlet letters blaze on into the night.
(Exit, stage right)
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A contest entry
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This is really good!
Some of it is kind of confusing, but I think overall, it is very well written!
Keep up the good work!
I'd love to read more from you in the future!
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WOW.
If this is simply what it seems like on the surface, this is amazing.
I love how you managed to bring such an uninteresting topic to life.
Really really good.
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Superb
A rather cool satirical write. I liked it just as it is. Thanks for sharing your unique perspective about boring instructors. -
It's somewhat confusing in a way but in another very much captivating. Like a maze you can't get out of but part of you doesn't want to cause you just have to know what goes on further, nice work
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Hmm .. I'm not really sure what any of this is about as it is rather confusing and doesnt make much sense to me, atleast.
It was interesting, but I kind of lost interest towards the end as nothing explained what you were talking about. Perhaps you could fix that and have some revision on the length of your lines as some are much longer than the others.
Good Luck in the contest and thank you for entering
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thank you for sharing your talent with me through this wonderful write. i wish you well in the contest that we both have entered. i am looking forward to reading more from you in the near future. viyanna rosemarie
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