Student Publishing Program ::

Robert Ernst

Expectations of a Modern World

To keep up with the others
you must learn to adapt:
Learn a new set of rules
and a new language, too.

With the lol’s
and the lulz
omg’s
imo’s
for them it simply flows
but why bother with it at all?

In your own little world
you have everything set up.
And it works!
Very well.
Without ever using
anything like
facebook
or twitter
or texting one word.
It’s the norm you must learn
that’s entirely absurd.

So shut up
and accept
what they all already have
it doesn’t matter ‘cause
it’s simply a million to one.
And why do you resist?
It’s fun.

...But not for everyone.

[TABLE OF CONTENTS, LHS CLASS OF 2013 EDITION]