Teachers Pet

• Clair Schneider, Grade 5
• Poetry
• 2019

I was always the teacher’s pet, but other people forget,
And say they’re the teacher’s pet.
I even have my desk in the principal’s office,
He put me in a spot facing the wall and said I was invisible.
He gives me extra homework and sometimes it gets very tall
and then it gets to the time where can’t do it at all.
Now I’ve got to say before you go and try to be the teacher’s pet,
You have to get one thing right that you’ll never forget
You’re not allowed to show him slime, limes and the time.
Not being mean, but I have to pre-warn you that it isn’t what it seems
I actually get lots of extensions and I was in the principal’s office because I had DETENTION!!!