The Boring Teacher

The Boring Teacher

A Poem by Elton Camp
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At least, his class is a cure for insomnia.

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The Boring Teacher

 

By Elton Camp

 

Coach Lindsey is an ignorant creep

Who puts all of his students to sleep

 

Sports is the only thing that he knows

Yet, into the history classroom he goes

 

He doesn’t know how people did live

And a coherent lecture he can’t give

 

He can’t tell one Adams from another

Thinks LBJ is Andy Johnson’s brother

 

That Teddy Roosevelt was after FDR

And that Jefferson drove an Edsel car

 

That the War of 1812 was against Spain

And that WW II saw sinking of the Maine

 

Believes Adolf Hitler was the head of Japan

And that Ben Franklin for president ran

 

The Constitution of the newly-formed nation

Confuses with the Emancipation Proclamation

 

Gettysburg Address is where the president lives

The Bill of Rights a listing of expenses gives

 

And yet, tenure good Coach Lindsey has got

So it doesn’t matter if he is ignorant or not

 

© 2012 Elton Camp


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Cool, I like this. I had some teachers in the past like this one. I have also taught a lot of students who have been thick as well ha, ha.


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Elton Camp
Elton Camp

Russellville, AL



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I am retired from college teaching/administration and writing as a hobby. My only "publications" are a weekly column in our local newspaper. Most of my writing is prose, but I do produce some "poetr.. more..

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