A High School
Teacher’s Final List
List #4: (i) Shakespeare, (j) advent
With Shakespeare came the advent of
A major change in me.
It didn’t happen quickly—but
It changed things thoroughly.
I learned to love the Bard and all
The mighty works he’d done.
It took some years, but now I’ve read
Those works—yes, every one.
And Joyce and I saw all his plays—
From first to very last.
My high school English teachers would,
I know, be so aghast!
For they had known a dim-bulb lad
Who couldn’t read a scene.
They would not know the Me of Now—
This Bardophile machine!
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