Take Life Seriously Poem by John Sensele

Play a sax, pay your tax and relax
While the breadth of the breath of life courts you
Whether you deserve it or you owe arrears of tax
You ain't paid because you couldn't stand a decent queue.

Take your foot off the brake of fake breaks lest
You eat boots and hoots of roots from six feet under
Because you scramble to ram disaster and scram from a multiple choice test
In the human science of sapience and salience under the aegis of thunder.

Don't jostle to rustle and bustle for honours you don't deserve
Or else the tragedy and the effigy of your academic malady
Will nibble at the gulf of the turf of the foible reserve
Teeming with paucity in the city of tragedy.

Shortcuts and butts of rudeness backed up by lies and sties
In a plethora of fora of academic cascades and facades
Built up in silts on stilts over several years of ties
With charlatans kill any hope of ascent into academia palissades.