Patience

I am fortyish
Talking to my class
In college about history
At 10:30 pm so many of them
Are getting fatigued trying to pay
Attention after working daytimes
Then attending night classes so
I ask them what is their hurry
To leave since this is the
History class from hell
And as soon as they
Walk out the door
They will just be
Walking in all
Over again
As they
Have
All
Died in
Wrecks on
The infamous
Highway 183 and
Are condemned to sit
In my class for eternity
Which at 10:30 pm at
Night sounds just
Possible so they
Laugh nervous
About getting
Out of class
And away
So class
Ends
Early by
Ten minutes
And they hurry
To their cars but
Awake to avoiding
Any accident that might
Cause them never to get out
Of my history class and
Safe home to bed to
Rest to sleep per
Chance not of
History or yet
Another of
My boring
Lectures
But of
Better
Things.