Physical Science Poem by Gert Strydom

Physical Science



(after Antjie Krog)

Right at the front at the big old green board
the teacher waits with a strong wooden cane
while pretty girls peep at me
and here I am alone in my wooden bench,
where just here I can die in my chair
when the teacher starts to wander around
while the lesson drags on and on
and he is causing great fear among the pupils
before a crooked old finger points at me,
I see scientific formulae in chalk,
how that teacher throws down the board-eraser,
and gives me a hiding until I get all the answers right;
sometimes I wonder from where he comes,
and see the most devious fiend only in him.

[Reference: "Wiskunde" (Mathematics) by Antjie Krog.]

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Gert Strydom

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Johannesburg, South Africa
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