Who cares if the day is flippen dark and dreary

It's official, English class at meadowbrook is a waste of your life, and a waste of brain space. Why the hell do they have us memorize poems that no one gives about! Who freaking cares if the day is dark and dreary. Poetry is nice to read, but I'm not wasting my valuable time memorizing it. What use is it to memorize poetry?
I'm not going to have some random person on the street ask me to recite poetry for him. If he did who's to say it be a poem I even memorized? Well then I should memorize every flippen poem out there.
How about instead of wasting time memorizing some guys eulogy we memorize parts of the constitution, or the declaration of idependance. Students should be memorizing something more beneficial than the rainy day by henry wadsworth longfellow! I don't need poetry for college.
No, I'm not dissin; poetry but I am dissing the school for wasting valuable brain cells that I can never get back! I would rather memorize something worth while, something I will use in my life.
I don't want to waste my education memorizing hohum poems....for god-sake the Rainy Day isn't even a good poem.