Earth by VRM

Mother nature created this,

The Earth.

The sky.

The soil.

But then we had to have it our way,

And we set the Earth to boil.

Leaves on trees began to brown,

But we still went on,

Wearing our pride like a crown,

The life in seas began to fall

But we didn’t care, we went on dumping trash by the haul.

But then one day,

Someone realized.

They turned it all around.

The forests we had so despised,

Were growing from the ground.

The grass turned green

How the birds did sing

The flowers were in blooming again

Their buds growing from the little stem.

And again the Earth was green.

And again the Earth was clean.

War Is A Prison by VRM

War is a prison

Trapping people inside of its jaws.

Jaws of hate

War is not one to tell you your fate.

All you can do is hope for the best

As this prison will give you no rest.

The bombs and guns will shatter your ears

And when the dust finally clears,

You will only see more hate.

Try as you might you will never escape

And forever it will change your heart’s shape.

Because war is a prison,

Trapping people and keeping them in.

Equal Rights For Women by VRM

Have you ever tried to join a group or game but have been rejected because you are female? That’s happened to me. When I was younger I would try to join football games at recess, but the boys would say that I couldn’t join because I was a girl and I was weak. But if I’m being honest, I was probably stronger and faster than most of the boys there. In the fifth grade, I was put in a group with all boys for a project. The boys gave me the easiest part of the project and didn’t let me add anything or suggest things for the project. When I asked them why, they said it was because I was a girl.

What happened to me probably isn’t as bad in comparison to what has happened to other women. Take Shirley Chisholm. She tried to run for the democratic nomination to become president of the U.S. in 1972 but faced resistance because she was a woman, and she was African-American. When people try to publish pieces of writing, sometimes they get rejected because the material isn’t what the publishers want. That is perfectly normal. But sometimes people don’t get things published because they are female. And that is exactly what infuriates me. People don’t realize how difficult things can be for women and girls. People portray women as weak and that “They belong in the kitchen.”

Think about jobs too. If a man and a woman work the same job, sometimes the man will get paid more than the woman! And they work the exact same job! Sometimes it goes deeper than that, like if the man got a raise and the woman didn’t. But usually it’s not. Even in sports women still get paid less even if the female version of the sport is more popular than the male version. Take the WNBA for instance. According to the website Statista.com, the average WNBA salary was about $103,000 for this past season, but for the NBA, it was about $9.4 million. And the difference between the numbers only gets bigger when you look at top-tier players. Player Diana Taurasi makes about $235,000 a year compared to Stephen Curry who makes about $52 million this upcoming season.

Once when I was in 6th grade, I got dress coded just because the tiniest sliver of skin was showing from under my shirt. The teacher who dress coded me said that it was distracting for other students and told me I had to pull my shirt down further. I still cannot believe that that teacher would dress code me for something as stupid as that. The same thing happened to my friend that year, but her situation was much worse than mine had been. The teachers went as far as to send her home to change. At the elementary school I used to go to, tank tops and spaghetti straps were banned. I obviously understand that sometimes girls can go a little far with clothing, but tank tops should not be a stopping point. Girls should be able to wear the clothing that they want to wear, without having to worry about getting sent home to change or getting in trouble for what they are wearing. Boys on the other hand, never seem to worry about that kind of stuff. There was this one boy in my grade who had tucked the bottom of his shirt into the top of his shirt like a bikini, and he was just walking around the hallway! No teachers tried to stop him! So boys can get away with it, but girls can’t?

In conclusion, boys and girls, men and women, should all have the same rights and rules. Girls and boys should both get in trouble if they do the same thing wrong. They should all be paid the same money if they work the same jobs, because look, JK Rowling is a woman, and she is just rolling around in money. Francoise Meyers is also a writer, and she has an estimated net worth of US$94.9 billion. Women should not have to live a life where they are bossed around and depicted as a weakling and a maid. Because women are people too. And all people are equal.

Our Skit by VRM and LF

(Joe the thief steals pencil from Frank the police man)

Joe the thief: Ha ha ha! I stole the precious pencil!
Frank: Hey! Get back here you pencil thief! That’s MY pencil!
Joe: Catch me if you can! (Frank catches Joe by them arm) Darn!
Frank: You're going to jail.
(Frank throws Joe in jail which is behind the chair)
Frank: The only way you can get out of jail is by eating this poisonous cake.
(Frank grabs cake from Guy’s desk. Frank hands Joe the cake)
(Joe eats the cake)
Joe: Hey! That cake was really good! Do you have more of it?
Frank: Huh? That cake was poisonous! You're supposed to be dead!!!
Joe: All thieves build up an immunity to poison. Thanks for the cake!
(Joe walks out of prison)

THE END

Pill Commercial by VRM and LF

V: Introducing our latest Infinite Cure Pill that cures everything!
N: If you have butt cramps, headaches, vomiting issues, or any other type of sickness or disease, it will be instantly cured the moment you put this pill in your mouth!
V: N here from Mars will now demonstrate how well the pill works because right now she has a headache.
(N eats pill)
N: Ah… I feel so much better.
V: We want to keep everyone safe, so here are some safety precautions. Do not take if you are pregnant, or if you have hearing issues.
N: Also, do not take if you live on the planet Earth, if you are blind, if you have toes, or if you have hair.
V: Ugh I have a butt cramp. I really need to take that pill.
(V grabs pill)
N: Don’t eat it!! You live on Earth!!!
(V eats pill anyway;  dies instantly and falls down)

END OF AD
(Bow to audience)

Crazy Hair by Vienna RM and NF

There was a woman with crazy hair,

Who had something in her hair, a pear!

She went to the barber,

Who worked near the harbor,

Instead of the pear, he found a hare!

The Rain by VRM

I see the raindrops falling

As the leaves they come from sway.

I want to go and touch them

But they fall far away.

The wind shakes the rain all off trees

Coming and going in gusts like a sneeze.

The rain hits the ground making a splatter

But the ground is hard,

And won’t shatter.

The sun comes out

And I have no doubt

That the water on leaves will all melt away.

But rain will come again another day.