I am a high school drop out with a GED.
That is the formal education of yours truly,
but I am self educated in areas that interest me passionately,
science, animal and human behaviour and history mainly.
Today anyone can be as self educated as they choose to be,
with this superhighway of information known as the internet by many,
but sadly,
most use the world wide web to post photos of their cats unfortunately,
which I too have been guilty of, as you can plainly see.
My Beloved Samonster Cat
Rest In Peace
America
I used to love America we never said the USA
as a young seaman, it was the place to buy T. shirts, jeans
and white I never forget the name, Arrow shirts
the people full of optimism everything was possible
and the workers were relatively affluent.
the racial aspect never bothered us; we saw black workers
and white workers toiling on the harbour.
I was reading much back then and discovered I had lived
in a bubble.
In New Orleans, I came face to face with racism I hat
met an enormous black foreman he invited me to
the town centre the restaurant I liked he said we could
not go into, you see, they don´t want people of my colour.
OK, we went to a lesser place had a splendid meal
listened to jazz music.
He insisted following me to the ship, and I remember some
white shouting lover. Onboard I read a novel by
James Baldwin, I didn´t sleep that night
Years later coming back to the USA, it had changed was
a more challenging place and there was on the radio,
endless talk
about the peril of socialism and the need to go to war.
I was older now and self- educated, knew it was no point
arguing with people who had been brainwashed.
She sells seashells on the sea shore
For in Lyme Regis she did explore-
Poor Mary's childhood hobby
This lass of tongue-twister fame
A fossil-finder,now of much acclaim.
Mary Anning (1799-1846) a carpenter's daughter,self-educated,but now hailed as the
greatest fossil hunter ever known according to the Natural History Museum London