Homework Poem by Robert Ronnow

Moby Dick, geometry, physics.
Study every subject everyday.
Homework is an indicator of future success.
Success is not necessarily happiness but it helps.
Freedom is to formulate your own definition of success.
Happiness is an imaginary tree, its own reward, and a
      fact.
Facts and fiction may be memorialized in memos or
      found in dreams.
The story starts thus: Each summer the honeysuckles
      and the huckleberries...
The web is that extra brain we've all been dreaming of
      having.
Like jumping 4 meters or flying without a plane.
To fly like that must one first have homework?
Some say yes, some say don't. It depends on how you
      vote.
Happiness is what happens when everything that
      happens
Fits the time perfectly and it's all out of your hands.
Not exactly. You don't let go of the steering wheel while
      driving fast in the passing lane.
You look left and right and check your blind spots.
Homework is an introduction to everything you're not
And all you do not know. It's supposed to help you
      learn to know where you want to go before going
      where you have to go.
Otherwise you end up on Ulzana's raid
Bleeding, without a bandaid.
All the achievement in the world won't relieve your
      loneliness
Or satisfy your sexual longing. What girls are like behind
      their eyes.
Survival, procreation. That's all there is to love.
But the loved one is the one who can be trusted with
      your life.
Whether Christ or your wife. The Muslim moms.
On my walk in the woods I come to a sitting spot
Above a small gorge cut by a stream through hemlocks.
Here someone has left a statuette of the Buddha and the
      flags you see
Flapping in the wind at sky funerals.
This is a pretty good place to sit quietly and think about
      homework.