Classic Poem

Teacher showed us

All the great works
Shakespeare, Michelangelo, Leonardo
Plato, Aristotle, Socrates
Mozart, Bach, Beethoven
Newton, Galileo, Einstein…

Then she told us

In so many ways
We would never be able
To do what they did
Because they had
Genius

We believed her
And did as we were told.


(Previously published in Seeker Magazine, Dec 99, Vol 5, Issue 12)