MAGICAL MYSTICAL
SCHOLASTIC EXTRUDER

The Magical Mystical Scholastic Extruder!

You go in one way

You come out smoother

And when you're soft and wrinkle-free

We can put you wherever we want you to be

You can fit in a desk

Or in front of a screen

Fit in the wheels of a great big machine

Fit in a tank or fit in a plane

You'll stay a round ball and never complain

And if bouncing around gives you a migraine

Just eat this corn and sugarcane!

Isn't that nice? Isn't that better?

Well, aren't you the roundest, soundest go-getter?

Now wear your suit and wear your tie

Earn your piece of the pie

Bounce up and down

But not that high!

(Don't get ideas and don't think to try)

Always bounce at a steady rate

Your bouncing is what makes us great!

Yessiree, everything's lyrical now that you're spherical

You can fit into our nation's wedges

You fit so well when you're lacking edges

Romolo Wilkinson is an American writer and radiologic technologist based in Alameda, California. He holds a BFA in Acting from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, and is a two-time winner of the San Francisco Young Playwrights Festival.

His poetry has appeared in the Ultramarine Literary Review. 

Today, he balances his creative work with a healthcare career specializing in orthopedic and pediatric x-ray.