Pudding Cups

I’m the one who cleans the pudding cups from your sink
and sweeps orange crackers and crayons from your floor,
doing my part to ensure this classroom does not stink.

I know my job is menial in your eyes. I don’t get paid to think.
I see “grammar” misspelled on your bulletin board but keep quiet because
I’m the one who cleans the pudding cups from your sink.

I sanitize the fountain, preparing it for their next drink
and I wonder what you’re teaching them and if I’m really
doing my part to ensure this classroom does not stink.

After school I point out the mistake and somehow feel like a fink.
I corrected your error and became the laughing stock because
I’m the one who cleans the pudding cups from your sink.

At first I blamed your kind, lumping educators into the same rink.
Are you who I want teaching my child? Am I the only one
doing my part to ensure this classroom does not stink?

The lesson you learned was to use chalk rather than bold ink.
The lesson I learned is simply that
I’m the one who cleans the pudding cups from your sink
doing my part to ensure this classroom does not stink.


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