Art School

Please help me
I broke the cardinal rule
I thought too much in school

Today my teacher yelled at me
I felt like such a fool
She said that I'm not simple enough

She turned her back
and I cleared my desk
All my pictures, colours and thoughts
hit the dusty floor with a thud

I want to crawl into a hole
and not come out until I can have them

Please help me
I broke the cardinal rule
I thought too much in school

Last week my teacher yelled at me
I felt like such a fool
He said I'm too original

He turned his back
and transformed my beautiful portrait
into a misshapen collection of lines and dots

He asked me what I thought
and I choked back the truth
like a mouthful of dust

Please help me
I broke the cardinal rule
I thought too much in school

My teachers always yell at me
I feel like such a fool
They say that I'm too strange

They smile at all the robots
and compliment their monochromatic copies
while I sit back and bite the dust

Maybe I will draw another secret picture
Of the spaceship that brought me here

In this strange school
I have not learned how to draw
only to smile on command

I wonder what I ever did
and why this must be my punishment

But as I keep a watchful eye on the teacher
I only know one thing
I broke the cardinal rule
I thought too much in school