8.10.2010
Teenage Adolescence! (by Stephanie Quinn)
"Have you done your homework?"
"Have you tidied your room?"
"Turn your music down"
"Have you washed the pots?"
"You're grounded"
Recognise any of these phrases?
Nag, Nag, Nag That's all they seem to do,
Yeh you've guessed it that's parents for you,
Your alarm clock goes, you hear mum
Shout "Are you up yet?"
You bury your head under the pillow
And think to yourself God it's only 8.15
There's no need to fret,
So you're supposed to be in school for
twenty to nine,
You really do have no sense of time.
You finally get up and your hair ain't right
Your face looks as though you've been in a fight,
You look in the mirror and you've sprouted a big zit,
You're deffo late now coz you've just chucked a fit,
So your hair and face are a mess, you've sprouted a zit!
You're late for school oh! Lesson one PE
You've forgot your kit,
It's life and what can I say its part of growing up,
All you really need is lots of very good luck!!

Textual analysis
You can think this is not a classical poem, because it is written with a colloquial language playing with many idiomatic phrases using a lot of eccentric expression in the language of adolescents. Not frequent rhymes made the poem similar to spoken language such as contracted forms, in the last lines there is kit, fit, zit repeated. I have the impression of the irregularity life of youth rushing to school always late. The reproaches at the first lines are repetition of what happens in every family letting parents appear like nuisance and boring people.