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Useless

Akash Mehta

September 2, 2018

Department: Poetry

Issue: Finding Your Spirit In Art

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Read a book, learn a rule,

Earn a fortune, but don’t use your tools.

Answer the question, get a good grade,

Look at your life, by what you’re paid.

If by chance, you make it through,

Textbooks, not poems, will prove you true,

You’ll end up a scholar, a professor divine,

— And how you got there, you won’t have a clue.

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Akash Mehta is 10 years old.