Oh, my test is full of X’s, for texts I did not read...
With all my work and effort, I thought I’d least be D’d!
But that red F stares at me, and now I must decide:
Should I tell and be grounded, or try to run and hide?!

A real whiz kid or a genius, I never would be called,
But I thought I’d slip by here--my grade, it would not fall
With my skin-and-ink pen strategies, I had so deftly planned...
But this scheme would quickly falter when I would go wash my hands!

Now I will try to destroy it, that odious exam
Maybe I’ll try to eat it like it was a piece of ham?
Or since it’s now December, I know what plan I will take:
I’ll take some shears and cut a big paper snowflake!

I’ll need heaps of extra credit to make up for this bomb
(And I had plumb forgotten it must be signed by Mom!)
Though integrity I’d undermine, right now I do suppose
That my ancient, cranky teacher likes when her students brownnose!

Oh no! Here come my parents! Now a conference ensues...
They talk about my math skills (and none of it I knew)
Teach recommends a tutor, I tremble like a mouse
Yet my parents are rejoicing, since I won’t be ‘round the house!

Now I’m stuck here with this big kid, who really cracks the whip
Ensuring with my homework, no problems I will skip
Though it’s evident that I’m not fine, I must show him respect...
‘Cause my test with all those X’s made me this here dude’s project!