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Friday April 11, 2008

 Teacher's Pet by C. Bahti
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TEACHER'S PETS

The teacher,
dishes them out:
quotes for appetizers,
facts for entrees,
names and dates
for dessert.

The students,
stuff them in,
gobble them up, choke
them down, leaving
hardly a taste in
their mouth.

The students
swallow them all --
some of them whole;
Then wait...and vomit
them back, all over
the page.

The teacher
smiles, pleased.
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Clever idea comparing learning or education to eating with the teacher the server and the students the consumer. You carry that out well. I like the regurgitation part, but why would that please the teacher? As a teacher yourself don't you want your pupils to do more than that?

Burt 		 
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by saddleback autobiography (PM , CC ) on Saturday April 12, 2008 @ 2:14 AM
I remember those teachers, too many of them. Anyone who could write this poem knows how not to teach. Any writer who can sustain a metaphor for more than a stanza, especially when each adds to the richness of the theme, is not just a poet but someone who got nourishment despite rigid, dull and inept mentors. My guess is you're a terrific teacher. MJ  
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by saddleback autobiography (PM , CC ) on Saturday April 12, 2008 @ 2:35 PM
Totally clever and delightful. A sardonic look at the world occasionally does a person good, especially with a chuckle as in this case. KC  
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by saddleback autobiography (PM , CC ) on Saturday April 12, 2008 @ 6:33 PM
I've heard of digesting information, but not in the specific details you give. Very creative, and quite interesting. Speaks from a teachers point of view. Nice poem. -nmm  
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by saddleback autobiography (PM , CC ) on Sunday April 13, 2008 @ 2:08 PM


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