People wanting to impress
Liking scores, but not the mess,
Achievements not by merit earned,
Grades, ratings, so devoutly yearned.
Insincerely claim as own
All the while the lie is known.
Reaping praise for other's work,
Inwardly pleased by growth they shirk. So they record in review logs
Thoughts returned by pedagogues.
Sloathful oafs these larcenous dogs.
[This was originally written for another site on which reviews were submitted for poetry - hence the reference to 'review logs' - and involves the rather paranoid fancy of someone stealing poetry from that site, submitting it elsewhere, and then submitting the review of a third party back to the original site, thus becoming a double plagiarist.]
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