teachers – Anton Martin Smith Writer

by Anton Martin Smith antonmartinsmithwrites@gmail.com

The joint-project Govt-CIA plan,

aka “Project Teachers Strike Inc”,

Today worked a treat.

It went off without a hitch.

It went like this:

All Teachers On the streets.

Hurricane winds a-brewin’.

Their oversize placards act as sails.

Teachers Lift off en-masse!

Off & Into the Tasman sea!.

Never to be seen again.

AI Robo-Teacher policy engaged!

Well played, I’d have to say.

We’re all better off without ’em.

& we know the Teachbots will kill it.

And so when the winds died down – the dust did settle.

And all through the land,

The citizenry did murmer to each other.

In ‘enwizened’ hushed tones:

“Long live the Govt-CIA joint-project…

For it rid us of the teachers…

They were an insane & greedy lot…

Hazaar to the Teachbots…

For they’re highly likely..

To have actually read a book…“

And Sure – they still might one day run amok…

But It’ll still be a damn site cheaper!…

by Martin Anton Smith

Kids in School want to leave School but can’t,

While teachers think they can’t leave School, so don’t.

They are both in Prison –

The Kids’ Prison is physical,

& the Teachers’ Prison is mental.

Both Prisons are equally real.

Kids & Teachers are both each other’s inmates,

Just marking time till release day comes.

Both parties think of ‘release day’ like this:

A future event that exists only as the proto-thought,

Of a nebulous & uncrystallised far-flung dystopian future.

Both prisoners at heart know they will be released.

But they still somehow don’t quite believe it.

This intrusive thought is the tip of the iceberg – peaking above the surface.

For hidden in the psyche lies a brutal Truth:

Modern life is just a giant ‘prisoner exchange scheme’.

When The Kid & The Teacher are ready,

Their brains will ‘release the files’.

And they will be released.

We the Kids & We the Teachers,

All of us.

And then with our brains at the ready,

& with our knowledge fully intact.

We will finally have come to know serenity.

For how could it be any other way?

For once man has arrived at the final & true destiny,

There is no want to argue.