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Our optional prompt for today, as I sit and drink Vietnamese coffee on this beautiful but chilly morning, is to write a poem an 'abecedarian' poem. This is 'a poem in which the word choice follows the words/order of the alphabet.' We could write a poem 'in which there are twenty-six words in alphabetical order,' or 'in which each line begins with a word that follows the order of the alphabet.'

I would love to try to the former, but the latter seems more doable at this stage!

With the alphabet in mind, I'm inspired to write a poem about my teaching experiences....

The classroom

As I entered the classroom

beside the tuck shop

chaos reigned

Delightful laughter,

eavesdropping,

fibs

Guffaws at 

humour 

I don't understand

Jokes

kids get –

lame jokes

Mildly amusing

nonsense where

opinions don't matter

Posers,

queen bees and

rascals

Snitches,

tattle tellers and

unruly outsiders

Virtuous saints,

willing hands and 

xenodochial spirits

Yelling and

zealous learners!