An "Ode" to Literature

So I found out on Friday that there were assignments for English that I was supposed to do over Christmas break and didn't.... Ooops. Thankfully it's only two small assignments but while trying to get the poetry assignment done this morning I wrote this poem;

To Literature

By Johanna Murray

O Poem how I hate your guts

I detest your subtleties

You fool the fools and tease the wise

With meanings well-disguised

And Film! Your entertainment bared

Is a simple, tasteless thing

A story stripped of all it’s worth

Yet still your money rings!

A Book is truly a scourge indeed

If I ever saw one or two

Complex characters crowd around

And I’m still muddled when you’re through

You Play; I care not for you at all

Your exaggerations bore me

All revenge and suicide and

Asking ‘to be or not to be?’

In short I think literature’s a bust

It’s all a waste of time

But ironically to tell you this

I use literature that’s mine!

I'm thinking I should not submit this as a suitable English 30-1 assignment.... But it was fun to write!