Deadline

WAKE UP!
You’ve got a lot to do today
Feel proud and wipe your eyes, ‘cause hey!
Stifle the yawn, stayed up ‘til dawn
Let’s see what you been workin’ on…

IT’S GONE!
Keep in mind the deadline
Is closing in
Your byline, the headline
They’re in the bin

Uncompleted
All deleted

WHAT’S GOING ON?
You have to crunch and work ‘til dawn ‘til you die!
Cut out the corners, cross the Ts and dot the Is!
Whip out the white-out but keep it in good taste
Just so that no one will
Ever know it’s defaced
Epithet Erased!

ALL RIGHT!
Group project work may bury you
Maybe your team can carry you?
Send ‘em a text, you’re feelin’ vexed
Ask your partners what you should do next

AW HECK!
The group chat: Unread.
Well that’s no good.
They tell you
“Well, we thought you would!”
“At a party”
“Never started”

WHAT’S GOING ON?
You always crunch and work ‘til dawn ‘til you die!
And then these lazy louses leave you out to dry
To them, expendable, you’re just a good grade
They took exhaustion
And they replaced it with rage
Go to your happy place…

New project now: It’s your revenge
Obsessed with thoughts of offing them
But no—
Why settle for sealing those snakes in a hearse
When you could do something that’s so much worse?

(Quiet and conspiratorial)
Slap their wrists and
Break the system

LET’S GET IT DONE!
Email the supervisor, get ‘em expelled
They act like devils, well it’s time to give ‘em hell!
Leak the receipts, and then you tank GPAs
If you go out then you’ll go
In a glorious blaze!
Epithet Erased!