The extent of The annoyance And absurd shivers Running down my teeth When they should Be running down My spine The dreaded moment When the gnarly-nailed teacher Goes near The chalkboard I brace myself For a painful landing With my ears plugged Hoping to block the world out. But no, That technique never works I feel the pain The screeching sound Of a whole lot of Angry bats Very excited About eating my sanity I wonder why god Who has created Beethoven and Mozart would create something So annoying I mean SO annoying As nails on a chalkboard