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TEST

Row after row
Plastic. Plastic. More plastic.
Chairs and desks
Row after row
Sit.
Sigh.

Take up a pen
Read. Contemplate. Answer
Read. Contemplate. Answer.
Read. Contemplate. Answer.
It continues
Sixty-seven times.
Read. Contemplate. Answer.
Read. Contemplate. Answer.

Pen drops.
Sigh, slouch, relax.
Check the clock
Tick, Tock.
Thirty minutes left.
Tick. Tock.
Twenty-nine minutes left.
Tick. Tock.
Time drags.

Sneeze. Cough. Sneeze.
Pens scratching.
Papers rustle.
Tap. Tap. Tap. Tap.
Pens scratch.
Papers rustle.
Tap. Tap. Tap. Tap.
Sigh. Relax. Slouch.

Ten minutes left
Tick. Tock.
Minds working.
Sneeze. Cough. Sneeze.
Sigh. Relax. Slouch.

He stares.
You stare back.
He questions quietly.
You answer.
He takes your sheet.

Shuffle.
Pen and paper gone.
Eyes look but are ignore.
Shuffling feet.
Slouching walk.

Fresh air.
Sigh.
Breathe deep.
Freedom.
Escape.
Over
Not sure if this is the correct place for this piece.
May move it to scraps

So i sat another test on Friday and finished early and wrote this.


EDIT: Well this is not going to scraps the piece is growing on em and i kinda like it now.
So i posted it on SFF World.com and got a bit of feedback from some friends of mine and made a few subtle changes . . .mainly to the 4th stanza.
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lil-ema's avatar
nice poem! you are scaring me. i've got to sit exams like that for a whole week, taking about 4 exams a day. two in the morning, two in the afternoon! :O. not good. ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh well c'est la vie!