BEASTLY TALES

WITLESS

“I would challenge you to a battle of wits,”
“But I see that you are unarmed, you stupid twits.”
So spoke Reginald Baloney, addressing his class.
He was a lecturer in politics, a silly arse.
Confrontational with his students he was,
Why was this so? Just because, because.

“This semester we’ll consider the cause,”
“As to just why Politicians always stick in their oars,”
“So to speak, interfering in all,”
“To their own political advantage, it does so appal!”
A student, one Hathaway Gringob,
A very poor student, a bit of a slob,
Raised his hand, a comment to make,
Reginald Baloney, incensed, began to shake.
“I do not allow interruption to my discourse!”
Then he began a tirade that made him quite hoarse.
Hathaway Gringob was taken aback.
Verbal intercourse with students, without a wise-crack,
Was normally encouraged by teacher and student alike,
But now this lecturer wanted his head on a pike!
At the very least, he dismissed him from class,
It looked as though Gringob was to be a tutorial outcast!
Reginald Baloney, to the Dean he was sent.
But, in this matter, he refused to relent.
“You can not, paying students kick out!”
“That’s not what running a University is about,”
“If we expel YOU, we don’t lose a tuition fee.”
“So that’s what we’ll do, consider yourself free.”