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REAL LIFE LESSON

               Edward Iacona



To be a student in your class

was certainly considered a coup

All the kids sure wanted you

and maybe a few mommies too.



Beyond the Three R's you traveled,

your lessons laced with mirth.

You taught of wolves and wildlife

and conservation of the Earth



Your teaching rings with wisdom

of heroes and brotherhood

Of standing up for justice

as future adults they should



Your classroom philosophy

was easy to explain.

An ongoing lesson that

your students should retain



That in living a good life

one should never abstain

from always striving for kindness

and for always being humane.



When dark times came to your life

We listened to all your lows

We took you in like family

We comforted your woes.



Then dark times came to our life

faced with separation and divorce

I called to you my 'brother'

My thinking was, of course.



I asked that you would mediate

a union that should not be dissolved

Your answer to my tearful plea;

'Sorry, can't get involved.'



One thinks of all the hearts and minds

That you touch and reach

Maybe you should learn from yourself

and practice what you teach.