English Teacher

What’s this?

It’s a pen

I know it’s a ____ing pen. Why have you given it to me?

So you can write with it. A poem

Poetry me? You having a ____ing laugh?

I could never write a poem

Poetry is not for the likes of me

Breaking and entering

Assault

Assault and battery

Rifling through the personal possessions of some complete stranger

Handling stolen goods

And all that

That’s for me

Not poetry

Try

What?

Try

You what?

But I did

A word

A line

Then time after time

And line upon line

Lengthening all the time

Stretching my mind

Horizons thrown wide

From the top to the bottom

From margin to the side

How my pen did glide

Weaving words into patterns

So pleasing to the eye

So this is a poem

And I am a poet

And I’m more than a nuisance

A crim and a timer

A drain on society

I’m more than that

More

More

Life has new meaning

Thanks to you English Teacher

Thanks it’s nice to meet yer

Give me that pen

What do you mean

It’s the end of the session

What do you mean the end of the session

Give me that ___ing pen

But he wouldn’t

So I’m stabbed him in the eye

Then lost it a bit

Took four of em to hold me down

When I got back to my cell

I’d forgotten about the pen

The Poem

And the poet

He’d gone

I was me again

In here

Where are the words?

Where are the poems?

Where?

English Teacher

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