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When I was in the 8th grade, a fellow classmate recited the lyrics to Rush's "Trees" in English class. He passed it off as a poem he wrote.

The teacher went gaga, and swooned. She told him, and the rest of us, that is was the most beautiful poem one of her students had ever written in all her 35 years of teaching.

We were cracking up (we knew the Rush song of course), and she got angry. "How dare you mock this beautiful poem!"

There is unrest in the forest
There is trouble with the trees
For the maples want more sunlight
And the oaks ignore their pleas

The trouble with the maples
And they're quite convinced they're right
They say the oaks are just too lofty
And they grab up all the light
But the oaks can't help their feelings
If they like the way they're made
And they wonder why the maples
Can't be happy in their shade?

There is trouble in the forest
And the creatures all have fled
As the maples scream 'oppression!'
And the oaks, just shake their heads

So the maples formed a union
And demanded equal rights
'The oaks are just too greedy
We will make them give us light'
Now there's no more oak oppression
For they passed a noble law
And the trees are all kept equal
By hatchet,
Axe,
And saw