Tonight's Poet Corner: Sonnet Solstice #78
The Scantron Is Your Enemy
by Belinda Roddie
The scantron is your enemy - a strange
draconian form of artificial search
for knowledge through the faulty process of
elimination for some pseudo-self-
evaluation. We learn through the art
of self-discovery, of building new
ideas to improve the people and
the world in which they live. Don't tell me that
wisdom has benchmarks or only one cheap
answer out of five guesses (A or E?).
If brains all worked like number two pencils
darkening dots, we all would fall apart.
I'll stuff these tests through the shredder. I still
won't degrade brilliance. I never will.
by Belinda Roddie
The scantron is your enemy - a strange
draconian form of artificial search
for knowledge through the faulty process of
elimination for some pseudo-self-
evaluation. We learn through the art
of self-discovery, of building new
ideas to improve the people and
the world in which they live. Don't tell me that
wisdom has benchmarks or only one cheap
answer out of five guesses (A or E?).
If brains all worked like number two pencils
darkening dots, we all would fall apart.
I'll stuff these tests through the shredder. I still
won't degrade brilliance. I never will.
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