A tribute to my English Literature teacher in 1965 |
Doctor Strait in his bow tie wasn't quite done Leaped into the room armed with his gun Screamed sit down kids, we're gonna have fun Put the shiny black pistol right next to my ear Assured me quietly I had nothing to fear Doc pulled the trigger of the gun he held to my head All my preconceived ideas were pretty much dead The forty caliber words that shot from his pistol Changed all of my things that were previously crystal The metaphors and images that came into play Changed the very fiber of my young life that day Dylan was singing, his tone awful to my ears The words that he spate brought forth my tears Like a Stone Rolling I knew what he meant His words were like magic from a personal bent I looked at the doctor with a smile on my face I knew that the Doctor had shot the right place My mind was expanded in his class that morning He fired it so right, it came without warning My life was changed by a man in a bow tie And a Minnesota punk that I could not deny The beauty of Doc was his Clark Kent disguise The ignorance of me he was able to surmise When he loaded his gun and he pulled the trigger The bullet when fired would make my world bigger Who would have thought that a man so square Would have the insight to make me aware That my English lit class had far more to say Than" Double, double toil and trouble" that day Thanks Doc. |