May 22: At the Close

This is a moving-boxes time of year,

When piles of paper stacked precipitously

On horizontal surfaces appear

To cast their leaves away capriciously.

And as shed sheets infect desk after desk

They settle on the work that’s been assigned

And keep appearing, paperwork burlesque,

Resulting in paralysis of mind.

While teachers yearn for summer to arrive

Administrators brace for fiscal close.

What quarters system sadist did contrive

For both to be coevally imposed?

For one tends to succumb to greater tension

Wh...