Tight stretched skin, not unlike leather parchment
Adorned with scars and burns and such carvings
Among the colors, red ink's enrichment
Envelops a file cabinet's burnings
Advice from the mental advisory
Suggests that all these thoughts be locked away
In filing in forgotten drawery
To the night is left burdens of the day
Where were they all put, these things once forgot?
Within the belly of the hungry fire
Sift the ashes in its wake, all for naught
Unabated, flames climb ever higher
Once-was engulfed, still the fire spreads untamed
Lost memories, the cost of ink unnamed
It’s been corrupted,
Even the learning systems in normality altered
The Innocence of examinations
Has swerved
Into Guilt of examinations
Exam malpractices everywhere!
Many students have sown the seed of levity
Which has grown into complacency
They, being carefree,
Are shamefully confident
They would cheat to the bull!
Assured their money could in qualms set them free.
Examiners have likewise injured the education routines of our country,
Even WAEC as a body
Of these –
In charge of its structures
They, like an engine that sucks tanks of oil,
So do they take bribes for scripts exchange
And manipulation of grades imputation.
Parents and guardians are fans of students and teachers:
Supporting their children,
And moderating tricks with teachers and examiners.
These exam malfeasances are done throughout:
From the class to external exams offices.
It’s a dreadful virus that has become an epidemic
Just like cankerworm, it has eaten our educational fabrics
Our educational system is anemic
But there is a remedy; together we all can fight against this social malady.
We need extreme energy; in other to restore examination sanity
We should resist corrupt practices, especially bribery
If we don’t fight against it then we’re doom, for anarchy and big calamity
There is a clarion call for us to save our academy
I implore all to resist corruption
Let’s try to mitigate if not eradicate this ill
Then examination malpractice will be a thing of a history.
You can't level up to who I am.
How dare you to malpractice on me
You can't level up to the things I do.
How dare you to malpractice on me
You can't level up to the things I put up with.
How dare you to malpractice on me
You can't level up being a parent.
How dare you to malpractice on me
You can't level up to responsibility.
How dare you to malpractice on me
You can't level up to my name.
How dare you to malpractice me
You can't level up to be a family.
How dare you to malpractice on me
You can't level up to anything in the world.
So seriously stop malpractice on me.
For you are a nothing who's malpracticing
My father dirty work.
Charlie wants to pass by all means,
That day he ate a lot of beans,
His fart has a foul smell,
Teacher runs from this spell,
Thereby,creating unpleasant scenes.
For this,they have to face the heats,
Most of them are full of deceits,
But charlie farts again,
Which makes panel insane,
Causing many to leave their seats.
12-3-2017
Contest:I Started A Joke by Maria Williams
EXAM MALPRACTICE
We are no saints, we haven't got holiness
Yet our steps can be retraced
Everyone there where he lacks
For we're all for one and one for all
Many have been asked; they answered
Many have asked; they were answered
But if you've never been asked
And if you've never asked
Such that you never answered
And you were never answered
Haven't you ever been silent
When you should have admonished
Pal, lets devest our honour this innuendo
For by either action or inaction
We all have some sorry to say for exam malpractices
You can; I can; we can!
Malpractice
Doctor, Doctor yes I am back again
Stop telling me to take a seat my friend
Millions of other peoples money you spend
Without the helping hand you promise to lend
You're really not a physician just playing pretend
Another unneeded prescription you extend
Then off to your pharmacy downstairs you send
I am putting you on notice so you better comprehend
That this profession for you is now a dead end
Stop your practice or to another realm you'll descend
Damned to Hell with your soul is what I intend
So listen close and take this advice I recommend
Here is your resignation that I've already perfectly penned
Dot your T's, cross your eyes because this is the end...
bmdavey@04/27/16
Traveling through the jaded discourse
With bartered pen and little remorse
Brandishing sharpened scalpel; tour de force
Unabashedly seeking all texts from lexicon to divorce
Developing underlying themes to alter the broader context
Freely abridging each verse to establish the pretext
Isolating each stanza to create a subtext
Inferring connotations to establish a hypertext
Disassociating words to broker more inflection
Delinking phrases building new bridges for reflection
Deconstructing patterns to sculpt out a new direction
Decoding mores and values to foster introspection
Voiding punctuation; compressing verses to scuttle metric time
Extrapolating dominant motifs to devalue the inculcating paradigm
Decoupling dissonant accents to deflower the sublime
Erasing phonetic schemes; disbanding symetrical order; decelerating rhyme
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