Before you go into that classroom
you must know what to say
how to charm them
what is their nature
I say to a trainee teacher
They eat you otherwise
as zombies
with an inherent frantic
hunger to devour
your teacher being

The zombient do not hunger
he says
and smiles
fleshy

Afterwards
he has performed the lesson of his life
while the students poked at their screens

He was right
He made them rather zombient
than approached their hungry nature