The Teacher's Tragedy

Thirty tired teenagers tell tales to trick,

though tutors toil to train their temporal tubes.

Tellingly, the tardy truanters totally take the teacher’s time.

Technology, Titles, Textbooks, Topics, Theory- Tick.

Trips? Too tense to tolerate.

‘Teamwork! Together!’ they’re told. Terrific!

Tall tales.

Tried to take tests throughout the term; the tables took their tantrums.

To tell: tempers thundered, tactless talking, targets tracked, tasks torn to tatters.

‘Take the time to top-up the tank’ the tabloids told them.

Typical.

‘Thanks’ the throngs of teens thought.

Tell them.

This therapeutic tautogram takes thinking; tempting to tap- too traumatic.

To tell: talent trained, thinking tailored, technique tinkered, troubles tackled.

Tears tidied.

Threadbare, tender-hearted, troopers trudge to teenage tribulations.

Twenty Terms: Tranquil to Tyrant. Thoughtful to Terrifying. Twinkle-eyed to Tired.

Too true.

Terminus.