Can I have your Attention Please?

Can I have your attention please?
There are 32 kids in this classroom
and Michael has a smell that no one can seem to trace.
We all know it is there,
but it seems like everyone just lets it be.

Can I have your attention please?
There was a dead bird on my driveway
that is all I can see when I blink.
I don’t know why, but every time I feel like crying.
Is there something wrong with me?

Can I have your attention please?
Something is on fire
but for some reason no one is moving.
Something is on fire.

Can I have your attention please?
Everything is exactly where you put it.
Where did you put it?
Think!

Can I have your attention please?
The sun is going to explode one day
there is nothing any of us can do to stop it.

Can I have your attention please?
…
…
Soup!

Can I have your attention, please?
This was never about you!
Why do you always have to make everything about you?!
Can’t you just act normal for five minutes!

Can I have your attention, please?!
This is so damned exhausting.
Do you not realize what you keep doing?
sit still
just sit still and shut up, please!
No one cares about the amount of antelope that get eaten each year.

Can I have your attention…please?
I am so tired of asking,
Can I just have your attention

please.