Panel 1: In
the title panel of this Sunday-style colour comic, Barbara hits herself
repeatedly in the face with an undergraduate essay as Marie watches.
Beside her is the title page of an essay; it reads, "Poetry by Poets
Looking at a Poem." In red pen, someone has added a colon after "Poets"
and, as notations, "West of Bathurst?", "by Kari Maaren," and a bunch
of question marks.
Panel 2: Barbara and Marie sit at a table and stare at Barbara's huge stack of essays.
Panel 3: Barbara regards the essays unhappily.
Panel 4: She cautiously moves a hand towards the stack.
Panel 5: She picks an essay up and looks at it.
Panel 6:
Barbara: [reads]: "Since the beginning of writing in poetry, poets have been writing poems about love and, death."
Panel 7: Barbara tosses the essay aside as Marie jumps up from her chair.
Barbara: That's clearly enough marking for today.
Marie: I know where there's cake.
Alt-Text:
Sometimes, it's just sort of..."Yeah. So that's just destroyed a
potential six hours' worth of marking. I'm going to go watch TV now."
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