His daddy was
a schoolteacher
and I empathise
with him
for that
So we hear
on Sunday night radio
Blues in the Bush
a sharp declaration
from the resident Blues Doctor
on a community radio station
His daddy was
a schoolteacher
is it still
a profession
what with everyone
expecting their offspring
to be kept on the straight
and the narrow
yet
for that
do we not need
a whole community
and the whole community
for that
and much more
in the state
we are in
Bush Radio’s garrulous Blues Doctor makes a well-deserved point about that much-maligned profession, Sunday night, 1 March 2020.