You sit

and you shout

you stomp

you scream

and you wonder

why half your students

are smoking weed

shooting heroin 

and destroying their livers

most every day

 

You sit

and you shout

you stomp

you scream

and you wonder

why people want 

to cut your pay

to hire no  one like you 

and take their kids away

 

You sit

and you shout

you stomp

you scream

and you wonder

a month 

of school

because 

of "a

made up disease"

while I straddled the brink

and learned about my own darkness

 

After 13 years, I've learned very little

But I learned

that Benito Mussolini

was

a school teacher

and a fascist

much like

most of

the employees

of my

grammar school