The Great Teacher

I am the Great Teacher! Professor to all.

I give lessons in life and death and peace and war

And pain and passion, pain for passion, passion for pain.

I am truly wide-ranged, resourceful stealth bomber by a pen and pad.

I’ve taught you how to love and fuck and kill and birth

Run wild in the wild and to search for the sublime.

I’ve shed light on historic events and figures- Alexander, Caesar, Hitler;

And predicted the future with devastating accuracy in mere quatrains.

I’ve enhanced all languages, while never forgetting mathematics.

I taught geography through imagery and humor through irony.

I’m stranger to many, but best friend to the same;

As without my presence man would still be ape.

I’m never perfect, always changing, a man of the times;

I am the Great Teacher! And I will never die.

                                                            -Joe Lagalante