Everyone has their own way of dealing with life's difficulties.
Some people over-drink. Others over-spend.
Bart Hartly over-talks to himself. In wordplay.
...porous Horace leaks porridge for us... Will he be able to finish a poem to Miss Flaggerty and get her to fall in love with him by the end of the semester?
If he can quiet the voice in his head-and the bullies around him-he just might.