Ballad of an English teacher
Location
Mr. Forevergingerman
Stares blankly at the page
It’s covered in words
Words
Just rolling and spinning on and off the page
Words everywhere
Everything is words
And nothing is words
And around him nothing happens
The only sound to be heard is the incessant tapping of Mr. Forevergingerman’s keys
And the air conditioning unit
Blowing out warm air
And he just stares at the page
And then a new sound appears
It’s footsteps
And he looks up
And a shadow passes through the blinds
Then nothing
And the sound recedes
And he looks back at the page and sighs
He’s already bled all over it with his red ink pen
But it doesn’t matter, really
It won’t change the grade
And he’s not even actually ginger
But it doesn’t matter, really
Mr. Forevergingerman