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It was midterms, eleventh grade
One evening, the group chat said
“The results dropped, go check the site”
So I logged in late that night

Straight A’s sitting by my name
Then chemistry looked kind of strange
A perfect zero, plain and neat
Like I had never shown that sheet

But I was there
I wrote that test
And walking out
I thought I’d done my best

Then my phone lit up
A message came
The guy before my roll
Had got the same

Then one more text
And then another
Ten of us in sequence
One right after the other

The website showed a zero there
The app just crashed instead
“Variable not declared”
Was all the error said

That night they told us
“Come tomorrow then
One day for objections
No extensions after ten”

So all of us submitted
Stayed awake and filled the forms
Like maybe if we pushed enough
We’d outrun grading storms

A week went by in silence
Then another notice came
“We’ll show objected papers
Tomorrow, check your name”

So our friends went there to look
Stood waiting by the door
The staff went through the piles and said

“We can’t seem to find yours.”

College lost my paper
Somewhere in the stack
College lost my paper
And they won’t bring it back

No apology, no panic
Just a shrug and vacant stare
Like losing ten exams in order
Was routine administrative care

College lost my paper
Told us not to make a scene
As if we were the problem
For expecting to be seen

I took that chemistry exam
I know exactly what I wrote
But somewhere in their records now
My work no longer counts

College lost my paper
And looked annoyed at us
Like somehow we were causing trouble
For making such a fuss

College lost my paper
That’s the whole absurd affair
A year of work reduced to dust
And filed as missing there

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