A new semester

The regular schedule will soon be resumed.
It's back to teaching, back to the same looks
of bland frustration, the same avoiding books
that causes grades to fall. It can be assumed
with safety, that the average student's doomed
in writing to babble like an endless set of brooks.
There will be plagiarists, those stupid crooks
who'll find their standing will have been consumed,
as flunking the course becomes their new reward.
Others will make the effort, really want to learn
and see the world with better informed eyes.
And some will think that because they have scored
a place in class they won't have need to turn
a page, just at semester's end plague me with lies.