Why Marking Is Like Recycled Paper

Homework. It can be very enlightening to see what students write. Sometimes, however, it can be as fatiguing as it is rewarding.

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i wade through the afternoon
the afternoon true weights me
the burden of still evening
is that evening must still be

there is no time to smell,
no smell of time save this
this where we are is hell
and hell is where it is

i mark the books i must
the bookmarks i must eye
are purple and are just
another way to die

the rut
is but
one more

one snore

red ink leaks where red pen drops
like red blood from lazy corpse

we wake this afternoon
we resurrect all things
we reconstruct the text
which vanished in the wings

evening falls on us
prepared receive we it
see if we care we must
tax sin and blindly sit