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A Semester In Poetry Form

Alphabetical Quatrains to describe Quadrangle Quandries.

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A Semester In Poetry Form
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Sea of paper expectations
Super Bowl LII ring size problems
Series of hoops and loops to jump through
Seemingly impossible

Ticking of clocks
Time seeming endless
Trying to pass time with a nose in a book that you’re not actually reading
Taking a time out to go to the toilet and twiddle with your phone

Understanding what it means to
Undertake the life of an
Undergraduate student and well, any student
Ugh, mid-terms are almost here, and I haven’t even started stu-dying.

Viruses, villains, and veins, veering me in different directions
Vapor clouding my sense of location
Valentine’s day spent alone because nobody wants to make plans
Vessels carrying the friends that I “cut off” this year since they don’t bother contacting me

Where did the time go?
When I was a freshman in high school, and times were simple
Why can’t life make sense, and be easy, the endless lectures, and annoying professors
Wanting success for you, but making success be the one thing that you cannot achieve.

X-rays of my brain, showing lesions, and contusions, due to stress and walking the
Xysts of life along the college quad.
Xerox’s cover my bedroom walls, since it’s the only way to succeed and study completely.
Xenon, dear Xenon, treat my panic disorders, and the prescription should be provided in my tuition

You college, are the reason for my stresses and worries. I cannot live a life, of a 19 year old
You force me to become an adult when I am not ready to emerge from my cocoon.
You yearn for the best in me, but you yield the worst in me because of what you put me through.
You deserve, to pay the tuition and taxes that I pay, to earn the degree, the piece of paper I win.

Zealously, I pursue this degree.
Zoo is the environment I chose, well, got stuck with is probably more appropriate.
Zigzag, is the technique you tell me to walk in, since the road of college is not straight.
Zucchinis are the vegetable I would use to describe college; green, ugly, tasteless, and lackluster.

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