April is National Poetry Month! Here is another Matthew Van Der Boot inspired poem.
Hot for Teacher (not that one by Van Halen)
Unsuited limbs and appointments?
What did she just say?
…much of the beautiful,
much of the wanton,
much of the bizarre…
You don’t remember reading that yesterday.
…and not a little of that which
might have excited disgust.
Excited disgust?
Oh shit.
You look about the room
but apparently it is,
just you, getting turned on
by your fifty-year-old English teacher
reading Edgar Allan Poe.
After class, she stops you
before you can get out the door.
She’s wearing a tight-fitting blue t-shirt
with the image of an eagle and the words
Presidential Physical Fitness Award
stretched across the front.
“Is everything okay, Matthew?”
she asks,
which only confuses you more.
Inspired by Van Der Boot 1983, Episode 8: “Unsuited Limbs and Appointments?”