An Ode to Late Work
You clutter my inbox
with notifications
and pleas to
GRADE ASAP!
(a please, if I'm
lucky)
I try to
remember
the hope
(and forget the
audacity)
of earning
the grade,
saving the credit,
or at least
appeasing an
angry parent.
You clutter my inbox
with notifications
and pleas to
GRADE ASAP!
(a please, if I'm
lucky)
I try to
remember
the hope
(and forget the
audacity)
of earning
the grade,
saving the credit,
or at least
appeasing an
angry parent.