I have never gotten along with English Teachers
because
they have too many rules
on how to write.
They have more opinions
than an ostrich—craning their neck over the neighbor’s fence.
English Teachers
become
English Teachers
because
they think
they might be writers
but they find out, quickly
that being a successful writer
takes more than following the rules.
In fact,
a writer who follows the rules is finished.
A writer doesn’t need anything
but
the blank page
and
the belief
that they
have something to say.
It’s always an English Teacher
who tells me to stop writing,
but I don’t
and that makes me a real writer.
Just Poetry 
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One English teacher told me to be quiet!
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English Literature was one of my least favourite subjects at school. The teacher used to get us to read passages and then explain why we thought the author had made the protagonists speak or act that way. Only we would then be told, “No, that’s not right,” as if the teacher had been viewing the mind of the author as they penned those words. “How can you know it’s not right,” I used to wonder – though not out loud, of course.
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