In its role as Poet Laureate of the law school counter-scam movement, the LSTC offers the following somewhat hastily written poem in celebration of Indiana Tech's inaugural graduation ceremony.
They came, their mettle second to none.
Oh! behold the mighty twenty-one!
Midst smoke and haze of Campos's craze
aimed true, their entry scores did amaze.
Highly recruited, through snow and sun
landed in Fort Wayne, brave twenty-one.
They inked their notes and trudged through the camp
with firmness no god or mortal tamp.
"No lawyer jobs," defamers did say.
Peers and a dean, lost along the way
yet like Sisyphus pushed up the ramp
spurred by gold-bar Sergeants Dre and Lamp.
No drill. No three-year hibernation.
Those twenty-one have found their station.
Their blood to justice yields libation
ready to flood the legal nation
with Socratic skill, flare, elation.
To them we owe great veneration.
On the dais comes each steely-eyed one
their career wicks burning, almost done
their lawyer minds hardened by the school
cocked to launch under a black-letter rule
indebted deeply inside each gun
Oh! behold the mighty twenty-one!
This meter, this rhyme
ReplyDeleteIt's gotta stop
Vintage verse is a turd
That needs to drop
So write the veneration
In Socratic hip hop
rappin' shit while countin' dimes
Deleteat the corner office desk
no need for hip hop rhymes
when you got the burlesque
1:21 v. 4:46
DeleteYour words are shitty and kinda weak
Some might say they even reek
And they can't hide your obvious flaw
You ain't down with the hip hop law
Hip hop law, hip hop law
muthafucka ain't down with the hip hop law
See, Life's a bitch and law's a sample
Let me give you an example
There's shit you smoke and shit you snort
But take my shit and that's a tort
Steal a car? Gotta fence it
Perpetuities? There's a Rule against it
And you can't sell when you should devise
Shelly's case is no surprise
Hip hop law, hip hop law,
You gotta get down with the hip hop law
Let's go back to the 21
You gave them praise for what they've done
But 21 will regret
That 21 are deep in debt
They have to work from dawn to dawn
They have to feed Dean Satan's spawn
While their's is starving, that's no maybe
'cause hip hop law won't feed that baby
Hip hop law, hip hop law,
who got fucked by the hip hop law
My rhymes are clean, my words are true
LSTC now it's over to you.
Hey LSTC, in the hip hop poem I just submitted, I'd like to change the line near the end from
Delete"Who got fucked by the hip hop law"
To
"You gotta get down with the hip hop law"
Thanks.
Excellent verse all around.
ReplyDeleteFurther:
"...there's many reasons why they chose Indiana Tech.
One of them being a low tuition cost and the attention they receive from teachers.
The law program has a three to one student-teacher ratio which means the students have a very intimate experience with faculty and staff and they're not competing with other students for time with their professor.
What's also unique to Indiana Tech is what they call an experiential curriculum, which means students gain real life experiences that are comparable to a second year attorney."
Yep, "intimate" is the word I would use, all right, but probably not the way the writer intended.
As for "experential," well, we've all heard that canard before...
For details of that "very intimate experience with faculty", see Lamparello's memoirs.
DeleteYou guys is poets that don't know its.....You are Longfellers........ You guys moved my world.
ReplyDelete"Intimate experience with faculty." So, Kinko the Clown teaches Contracts?
ReplyDeleteWhen Tech scammed one and twenty
ReplyDeleteIt thanked the ABA
For clowns, unsounds, and dummies
too fool to stay away.
Take wealth away from rubes, see
But keep your conscience free
So Tech scammed one and twenty
It sold a scam degree.
'Tis true. Brilliant.
Delete"Forward, centurions!
DeleteNoble Arthurians!"
Though student loans mounted
Skyward aplenty:
Theirs not to make reply,
Theirs not to reason why,
Theirs but to do and die.
Into the valley of Debt
Rode one-and-twenty.