“Open your textbooks to page 572, class.â€?
Mrs. Brown said when she was subbing for our usual teacher, Mrs. Young.
I hate math,
it’s like the clock freezes for hours before it starts up again, but only in this class it happens.

The period was finally over
and the end of the day grew near.
I went home and decided to go for a walk.
Instead of going around the block,
I wanted to go around the city.