Drive-by April!poem

[flyakate]

Almost the end of the month, so here, have a poem! I think it's awesome.

Pass/Fail by Linda Pastan

You will never graduate
from this dream
of blue books.
No matter how
you succeed awake,
asleep there is a test
waiting to be failed.
The dream beckons
with two dull pencils,
but you haven’t even
taken the course;
when you reach for a book -
it closes a door
in your face; when
you conjugate a verb -
it is in the wrong
language.
Now the pillow becomes
a blank page. Turn it
to the cool side;
you will still smother
in all of the feathers
that have to be learned
by heart.