Did you hear?

Did you hear?

Today they canceled science and history

and math

and filled the slots with silly time.

It was declared
that serious persons must commit

one gaff

or fall

or laugh

or write the word booger

one-hundred times.

It’s just that sort of day,

ovely,

dovel
lovely is what it is.

Did you see the news?

They found a WWII submarine

off the coast of Carolina.

A relic of a serious time--

but wouldn’t you believe it,

the crew was fine!

They were drunk actually

and the spectacled scientists felt silly
from their tentacled craft
as the submariner and his men
sauntered all over
the ocean floor.

I'm sure you've felt it before.

People always saying

there's something coming;

they feel the slow strings

quickening, 
tightening.

But assholes always get it wrong, don't they?

Didn’t you hear?

Today they canceled science and history

and math
and filled the slots with silly time.

Write the word booger one-hundred times

laugh

or make a gaff 

or if deep down 
you're serious like me

try to fall

in love.