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Teacher’s Lot

(Version ll)

September the first

Back to school again

Facing an army of kids

Another year of struggle in vain

New academic year

New ideas, mostly hot air

Replacing common sense with dogma

And last year ideas disappearing in thin air

Struggling to teach the unwilling

Endeavouring to meet the targets

Trying to make the ends meet

Stretching the boundaries of one’s wit

Bell Tower, Vank Cathedral. Esfahan, Iran

(photographer: B. McMorrow)

But at the end of the tunnel, there is always light

Counting the days as one might

One day is almost gone

Only three hundred and twenty eight more days to come