Contemplations Of Shakespeare's Motives And The Second Day Of School Poem by Lux Bellavora

The second day back is the worst
Why did we even invent Wednesdays?
No longer is the good first impression
Or the pity hello
The excitement is gone where all false dreams go
And we all realize things aren't going
to be better this year
and the lunch meat isn't going to stop
Crawling down the cafeteria tables

The second day is not simply
Talking about learning about Romeo and Juliet's
Doomed two-day engagement
The educators don't believe in
Courtesy weeks
And definately not when
Examining Shakespeare's theatrical lovechild

The romantic young girls
Vibrate the room with their pitiful excitement
Boys look for any excuse to spend the whole period
Anywhere but here
And I sit in back
Trying to explain to the degenerate to my right
That an apothecary is not a drug dealer
And Romeo doesn't really want
To be a glove upon which Juliet rests her
- You know what?
Nevermind

But how could such
A tragic and seemingly awful plot base
Serve as the basis for so many a love song
West Side Story ending well
And fuel young William's
Notable career
Till he choked on an eel

Hamnet would be proud