New Paltz I’ve given you my money and now I have none.
New Paltz four thousand dollars more than I had back in September.
I can’t stand another round of papers.
New Paltz when will we do away with grades?
Go scratch your ass with your pop quizzes.
I don’t want to study on Saturday night.
I won’t study till I’m good and ready.
New Paltz when will you be more forgiving?
When will you let us have a week off?
When will you see things from my seat?
When will you realize you are a school of sixties children?
New Paltz why are your roles full of students falling short?
New Paltz when will you accept someone with a 2.5?
I am tired of your standards.
When can I go to class and get judged on my smile and bad jokes?
New Paltz after all it is you and I who are in this together not on opposing sides.
Your workload is too much for me.
You made me want my PhD.
There must be some other way to convince you.
Profs are exiled from their offices and they may not get them back
its suspect.
Is this really about air conditioning or is this just to see how much we can take?
I’m trying to make sense.
I refuse to be quiet.
I haven’t read a full book in months, everyday
I get a new one to analyze.
New Paltz I am scared about my future.
New Paltz I used to hate education when I was in high school
that hasn’t changed.
I watch a sitcom every chance I get.
I listen for butt and sex jokes and try to fit those
in-class discussions.
When I go into town I get a venti latte and never leave a tip.
My brain is racing with no place to go.
You should see me running in first gear.
My adviser thinks I’m misunderstood.
I won’t show for class on time.
I have thoughts of conspiracy and have delusions of grandeur.
New Paltz I still haven’t told you that you made my parents
believe I am in good hands.
New Paltz I’m telling you..
Are you going to let me be influenced by
popular culture?
I’m obsessed with popular culture.
I can’t stop watching MTV.
It grabs me every time I try to blow past it with the
clicker.
I watch it when I should be writing that research paper.
It’s always saying to rebel. Kids
rebel. Adults use passive resistance. My writing is passive resistance.
Everybody is rebelling but me.
I just realized that I am New Paltz.
I am thinking out loud again.
WCC is welling up inside me.
I haven’t got a Westchester’s chance.
I’d better think of myself a lost cause.
My lost cause consists of two cd programs from
Tony Robbins seven hundred books of fine
literature that will take me two years to read if
I take the next year off and only read the first chapter of each.
I look past the English majors who will be teachers
and realize I may have no future.
I have skipped past Old Main, Elting
is next on the list.
My mission is to be an agent of change even though
I haven’t changed me.
New Paltz how can you send me out there in this state of
mind.
I will drive forward like Michael Jordan with ten seconds to go
two points down until I’m one step ahead of the
of the guy who thought too long.
New Paltz I will sell my old Jordans on eBay for $200 more
than I paid to the guy with no sense.
New Paltz release my mind
New Paltz save the free thinkers.
New Paltz embrace Jason West.
New Paltz I am Arnold Benedict.
New Paltz when I was six my parents took me to Florida
in the family wagon with the backwards seat and boxes of Twinkies
and we went to Disney on the teacups
and it cost them twenty five-hundred and I puked on my new
sneakers which never came clean and I cried when I met Mickey
because he was so much bigger in real life but the cotton candy and It’s
a Small World made it all better until I fell asleep during the light parade
and woke up with the waves crashing on my brain and my head peeling
from the sun the day before after breakfast with pancakes and six syrups which
ended up on my eggs. Everybody needs to be a kid again.
New Paltz I don’t really want to go out there.
New Paltz there’s no work for me.
Them nine-to-fives and those clock punchers.
And them nine-to-fives.
The nine-to-fives want to eat us alive. The nine-to-fives’ destroy us.
She wants to eat our lives. She wants to takes us from our homes.
Her want to take the suburbs. Her wants us to work at Wal Mart.
Her wants to replace Mrs. Greens with Stop-n-Shop. Him big business
wants our weekends. Help.
New Paltz this is quite disturbing.
New Paltz this is the impression I get from looking out at
the Real World.
New Paltz is this right?
I’d better get right down on the ball.
It’s true I don’t want to go out there and join life or make decisions
in the grocery store, I’m not good with balancing my
check book anyway.
New Paltz I’m putting my head down and charging forward.
a decidedly myopic rehashing of the not so obvious... Seinfeld should have thought of it
