Aurora's Honored Educators

Aurora’s Honored Educators

17 October 2014

The room was full of fabled folk—

Of teachers long retired—

Who gathered there to celebrate

Those colleagues who inspired

Their students and the rest of us—

Through many, many years,

Admiring speeches sometimes soaked

In grateful streams of tears.

Kmetz-Kutinsky—these were two

Who nursed and guided me,

And both now have a permanence

In my frail memory.

We honored excellence today—

In such variety,

Two teachers who had long displayed

Their classroom alchemy.

1. Dumb …

The feisty, feckless, fabled fool

Shall seek some solace skipping school.

2. … and Dumber

I just ordered lots of iced tea—

Why’d the server get so feisty?

Shakespeare Couplet:  Romeo and Juliet (22)

She learns that Romeo’s a Montague.

Identity—there’s naught we can undo. (1.5)