botany reporting

Old Doctor T, the minute she
these clueless AB majors met,
immediately all came to see
how badly plants upset.

The class she split up into eight
for group reporting; oh, how fun!
-- if only she did not proceed
to murder everyone.

Until my turn came to explain
the complex intricacies involved
in extracting essential oils from Rosa damascena
with a sophisticated diagram I drew on the board
in my incomprehensibly bad handwriting

did she for a fleeting moment
cease to be a terror.