Every October the return of the teaching year whacks me in the back of the head.

The poet they probably shouldn’t have sent. I watch anime and am sometimes accused of reading books. I'm writing a long gay giant robot story in verse—probably this millennium's best yuri mecha epic poem, through lack of competition.
'Now praise those names on tombs of steel engraved | And toll this rotting country’s countless bells.'
Every October the return of the teaching year whacks me in the back of the head.
It's midterms for two of my classes, and finals for the other two, and let me tell you, this week has been A Week already, and it's Monday