Monday, June 22, 2020

The Story of the SAT boy

Ronald is an EnigmaThe most incongruous and disparate one in classAll day long this garrulous guy Talks in paradoxesHe says he’s magnanimous and munificentThen he says he’s rapacious and avariciousNo one can fathom his esoteric speechSo everyone just ignores himBut soon Ronald ascertains a new hobby:Study for the SATs!All day long and all day nightHe vowed to learn all the vocabulary words:Indulgent, pejorative, reproach, surfeit, premiseSublime, profligate, abridge, insolent, philistine ...The SAT words book became his sacrosanctStudying was like a panacea to all his troublesHe wanted to be a paradigm, in fact, an epitomeFor other sagacious students to idolizePretty soon the words mellifluously,Flowed out into his normal speechNo longer was he the guy with an arcane speechBut a prudent guy with an Eminent, illustrious and conspicuous wisdomEveryone within his proximity,Felt an ineffable trepidation of his great superiorityAll those who used to ignore himNow are sycopha nts By now all the didactic teachersHeard of this RonaldThey all thought he was just a Spurious, apocryphal, ersatz, pseudo, Fraudulent and sham fakeThere is no way that idiosyncrasy of society is smart!His inherent, innate and inborn qualities are being weird!This is insolence, they say! Insolence!But Ronald just mortified the teachers byEasily completing the 500-word vocabulary examUpon scrutinizing and perusing the exam They found that Ronald facilely got 100%And all his subordinate proponents lauded his victoryWhat a smart guy ...