Vocals by Michelle Karsten and Hart Deer
"Bohemian Rhapsody" Instrumental (Queen) performed by Forme


Lyrics:

Is this poor grammar?
Is this just styling?
Caught in assignments
No escape from the grading
Open your eyes
Look up the assignment sheet
I'm just a student, I need some sympathy
Freshman year, sophomore year
Junior year, senior year
Anyway the essay goes, the grammar is what matters to me
To me

Teacher just graded me
Said my tenses were combined
Past and present in the lines
Tutor, how do I fix this
I don’t want to throw it all away
Tutor, ooo (anyway the pen is)
Essays should be a single tense
An unnecessary shift will cause confusion
Carry on, carry on, keep looking for those errors

Tutor, my time has come
I speak they sound the same
Affect effect are to blame 
Homonyms are the reason I’ve got bad marks
Gotta learn them all and check before I print
Tutor, ooo 
I can’t trust spell check
I sometimes wish computers could help more

I see a missing oxford comma in your list
Not a splice, still not nice, did you do the proofreading?
All these types of writing very very frightening me
MLA (APA)
MLA (APA)
MLA, Chicago
Galileo, ooo

I'm just a student and I need tutoring
He’s just a student from a university
Spare him his grade from this monstrosity
Here’s two sentences, will you separate them?
Fused sentences! We will not separate (let them end)
Sentence that won’t be separated (let them end)
Sentence that won’t be separated (let them end)
Won’t be separated (let them end)
Never separated, ooo
No, no, no, no, no, no, no
Oh run-on sentence, run-on sentence, run-on sentence let it end
Fused sentences need a link or period to stay
To stay
To stay

So you think you can write in a comma splice
So you think you can ignore all of this advice
Oh Student, can't hand in this text student
Must punctuate, must allocate all the marks

Ooh yeah, ooh yeah, oooo
Grammar is what matters
Anyone can see
Ethos is what matters 
Grammar really matters to me

Anyway the language flows


Grammar Demon’s Rhapsody

After year performing in coffee shops and putting aside poetry for college assignments and various bands come the first collection of Michelle Karsten's spoken word poetry.