Mac
\nby cricketjeff on December 7, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved
\nI caught my love of poetry from Mac
\nHe read each verse as though it were alive
\nIt took me years but now I’d like him back
\nTo see the sort of work that I contrive<\/p>\n
I saw him throw a school chair through a door
\nTo emphasise a last dramatic phrase
\nNo teacher ever taught a student more
\nBut he and schools were slipping out of phase<\/p>\n
His other love was putting on the shows
\nThat lifted literature straight off the page
\nIt’s through his influence some pupils chose
\nTo make careers as actors on the stage<\/p>\n
He couldn’t cope with modern teaching’s rules
\nToo many of his ilk are lost to schools<\/p>\n
Author notes
\nActually I don’t think Mr McAuliffe was my best teacher, but he was very close
\nand he was the man who gave me poetry, although reading and not writing, I
\ndidn’t start writing until well after he was dead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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