Three Percent

I didn't learn percentages
from a chalk-finger-dusted butcher
with delusions of tenure;

I learned them from a boy
who made my day three percent brighter,
just by smiling.

The second stanza of this was originally a fragment in my writing notebook that I liked; I wrote the actual poem though, in the journal I'm supposed to be keeping for Drama. I just write in whatever notebook happens to be open at the time. Though given that Minnick is head of Secondary Education in the English department, maybe he'll like the teaching theme XD