i watch the bus as it pulls out of view, someday like that bus i will be leaving too

I was watching that Last Comic show the other night and during Lavell Crawford’s set I noticed that, somewhere towards the back of the audience, some folks were holding up a sign that read “Lavell is Swell.”

I saw this and immediately my laughter turned to teary-eyed rage. It both saddens and sickens me when I think about how the public school system is failing the youth of this country. How can we possibly expect this great land of ours to continue to thrive if we aren’t even teaching proper verb conjugation to our kids?

Swollen.

The sign should read “Lavell is Swollen.”

And as I ponder such pronounced philistinism of proper past participle practice, I weep.

For the children. For America.