Dear teachers,
I have been telling

off your students,
but the off

is you
for teaching them

linguistic things
that are

in their minds
just things, really,

to imagine sound
better [let’s not

examine as adjective,
as adverb, as noun

as verb]
than ‘better’

or what is
correct.

This is a ‘rotten’
thing to do,

which is not
a lexeme,

even if it is
or could be,

but is definitely
corrupting

as a thing to
teach students.