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So, you guys know that poem "Song (Go and catch a falling star)" by John Donne? I memorized it a few years ago because I was a bored nerd. But I didn't like it, so I wrote a fourth verse:

This wrote he, th’unfaithful poet

Responded I, “You heartless man, 

If you are false, it’s you who’ll blow it, 

‘Twas you first cheated, that’s why she ran.

Be committed like my parents,

That you’ll find worth more than bare pence

She may

Then stay

And your love last another day

Grade, be not Good

The troubled person of the educational status tells their tragic tale based on the words of John Donne's "Death, be not Proud".

Source: AI generated image by the program, Fotor.

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Grade, be not good, though some have called thee

Lousy and dreadful, for they are much so;

For those whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow

Drop not, poor Grade, nor yet canst thou fail me.

Without rest and sleep, which but all tests be,

Failures; then with thee much more will flow,

And soonest our brain cells for thee do go,

Rest of their bones, and soul's delivery.

Thou art slave to guesses, cheats, and professors,

And dost with pencils, ink, and papers dwell,

And text or slides can make us cry as well

And worse than my death; why not curve'st my scores?

One short study missed, it falls eternally

And grade shall be no more; Grade, thou shalt drop.

Come live with me, and be my love,

And we will some new pleasures prove

Of golden sands, and crystal brooks,

With silken lines, and silver hooks

- John Donne

365 Days of Poetry - Day 46:

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NO MAN IS AN ISLAND

No man is an island,

Entire of itself,

Every man is a piece of the continent,

A part of the main.

If a clod be washed away by the sea,

Europe is the less.

As well as if a promontory were.

As well as if a manor of thy friend's

Or of thine own were:

Any man's death diminishes me,

Because I am involved in mankind,

And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls;

It tolls for thee.

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John Donne

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