See, Hear Or Speak No Evil
We should see no evil the teachers taught us.
School faculty had butter, we margarine,
They relished the toasted white, while we ate brown bread;
Always on the wrong we suffered they were Right.
Ringing roll call bells we heard in the line up
House master to walk a sharp eyed inspection;
Pulling out those loose tie or unpolished shoes:
He walks flouting slippers and open collars.
Student molested toes the line in discipline,
Never speaking to the professor he knew,
Touching him with unique silence, tongue in cheek
Flattering his smile to boost the boss’s ego:
Forget truth, to remember established wrong,
And delight in this saga's pathetic ways.
Prompt:-
“It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong”
Voltaire quote
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