Autobiography in the Hanquerian style

We got a new class teacher this fall.
Head says we should be grateful

on account of he’s highly ‘qualified’. Guess that means
he gets paid more. So he’s the one

should be grateful. In my experience
which don’t hold for much
but which ain’t nothing neitherways:

life out here don’t pay much heed
to paper ‘qualifications’.

Now, ‘qualified’ is something
of another colour altogether. That’s earned
with a diff’rent sort of paper.
We’ll see.

poem by Michael Shepherd
Submitted by Poetry Lover
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