thoughts while grading

i want the facts and what they seem to mean
not what the student makes up on the go
the truth reality i know it's never fully clean
but learning involves having things you know
instead i get some half-digested tales
informing me of things that are not real
my head shakes and the heart within me quails
they'd tremble if they could know just how i feel
i have to laugh to hold back all the tears
to keep me within the boundaries of the sane
it seems that all my efforts through the years
have only served to irritate my brain
there seems to be no measure i can take
that will force this stupidity to brake