Once upon an evening dreary, while we sat there very weary,
Listening to the ramblings of some old bore,
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
As of someone insistently rapping, rapping on the classroom door.
"'Tis some late student," I grumbled, "tapping on the classroom door--
Only this, and nothing more."

Furtively we all peered around (though seeming to study the ground),
Wondering who would dare to answer the door,
And who could be so disrupting, all our studies interrupting
By so tenaciously pounding, pounding on the classroom door?
"One of the professors," I decided, "should answer the classroom door--
I'll just sit here and stare at the floor."

Presently my soul grew stronger; hesitating then no longer,
I rose and strode over to the door.
I grasped the knob, and, slowly turning, a figure I was soon discerning,
A strange-shaped figure standing, standing at the classroom door.
Instead of the student I expected, a delivery man with pizzas four.
What was he doing at the classroom door?

He said, "I have the order," - though I suspected some disorder -
"For room twelve in the basement floor."
Though my jaw was dropping, I figured this should soon get hopping
So I asked: "Did anyone order pizza, pizza from this guy's store?"
"Nay," they said, but I could not ignore
That "12" was written on the door.

Then, methought, the air grew denser, perfumed by this pizza-censer.
My stomach's churning grew harder to ignore.
I gently suggested he go away, but he insisted that we pay
For the pizzas, pizzas someone ordered from his store.
"I'm out of my league," I thought, looking to a professor,
"Help me, I implore!"

As the professor began him entreating, I to my seat was retreating
More quickly than I ever had before.
My grinning face I was hiding, while in my mind I was deciding,
That no matter what the racket, racket worse than I'd heard before
Rapping, tapping, knocking or pleading... the door
Shall I open - Nevermore!

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Yes, it actually happened (except it was a sheet pizza, not four -- sacrificed it for a rhyme, there.)