Call in sick this morning to buy time to study
(for Jeff)
by Bunkong Tuon
 
I sit in the library memerizing
Le changement dans les verbes francais
When I notice the female sex
Sitting a table across from me.
 
She is not ugly, neither is she Donna Perry.
She is average-looking, but she'll do.
I mean, I'd like to do her!
 
Of course, being the shy type,
I don't do anything.
 
So I place my hands between my legs
And begin rubbing desperately under the table
Until her eyes meet mine, until she gets up
And storms out of the study hall.
 
(thank gods that she does not call the campus security).
 
The next morning I go to the list of grades
Posted on la porte du professeur, scan for
My S.S. #, and find out that I have a 69 % on l'examen:
 
Shit! 1 point short of a C grade!
 

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