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Halford always had a little trouble
in his English class
His teacher making him read stuff
he didn't want to read
He sulked soo bad when the teacher
called on him
He was shaken back to reality,
when a girl he liked,
said something to the effect of
"Oh Please"
Well, that sort of changed his sulky mood
to one of
"OK, I will snap out of it", upon this girl's
commentarial jab.

So here Halford is,
all smiles in his english class
He even made a movie,
a movie to a music soundtrack,
back in thoser early days of
music videos
remember that cable channel
where all they played were music videos
to songs? Do they still have that?

II

Halford had nothing really against
the world
He just tended to want to be kind to
everyone,
He was quite reserved, though
Quite reserved indeed, to the point that,
One of his other english teachers,
a different class, a different year,
had the gall to get up in front of the class,
and , of course thats what teachers do,
and talk about Halford, not directly,
but by talking about some former student,
who almost hugged the wall,
as he walked down a hall, afraid.
Halford felt quite uncomfortable,
it was obvious, to him, that the teacher
was referring to his own silent behaviour
Oh, how he disliked that teacher

III
And it came to pass,
that there was some conflict of his schedule,
and in the advisor's small room, the advisor called
the teacher, to ask if a student could switch out.
Little did the teacher know, the advisor was talking about
Me.
I switched out to a creative writing class,
and wrote such a fine creative story for the new teacher,
he was a student teacher,
And my old, mean teacher, one day,
came in, to sit in on the class,
to observe, and grade the student teacher's
classroom performance.

IIII
The mean teacher was like black grease cloud
in the room,
and all of the kids, who normally, would open up
in trust of their student teacher,
remained totally silent
To the point that the mean teacher formed the
death knell opinion, that THIS student teacher,
was not to continue in his budding career
as a teacher. Not only was the student teacher
unable
to motivate his class to participate,
this was the sanctuary where
Halford had escaped to, escaped from the mean teacher's class.

The mean teacher had just about finished clicking his pen closed,
signing off on the eval sheet
that would determine the fate of this kind student teacher,
When Halford rose from his seat,
and stood before the class.  He faced the mean spirited teacher,
and said,
"Sir, I believe you have not been properly introduced to
Our Class.
You see, Sir, all of us here are trusted friends,
and you, Sir, are an outsider.  An Intruder.
So, may I ask, Sir, can you describe to us,
your greatest, most intimate
Fear?  
Could it be, when, as a boy, you had an asthma attack
and frantically found that
you couldn't breath?"

The mean spirited teacher closed his notepad,
stood up, and left the room.