Used to be a teacher –
socially respectable –
graded papers, set
lesson plans, passed.
Now, locked out, I am
tossed like dirty laundry
heaped atop the sullied
citizen pile – a dirty,
tangled mess in need
of cleansing – those
indistinguishably ill
usurpers of public money.
Once, knew definitively
the standards set by
ministry guidelines,
curriculum based goals
now, am dispossessed,
mind lost, unable to focus
on details, angered by
trivialities, a nonentity.
How I miss the certainty
of rubrics, daily routines
set by hours of sweat –
sweet organization.
I am the student now,
submerged in this disarray
of emotional churning
unsolicited learning
environment in which
achievement is seldom
honored – no A’s awarded
for surviving life tests.
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