dedicated to Bill Robinson
because he would have smiled.
When I was a kid in the country
an inspector of schools came to visit.
He called our sweet lady teacher
an excellent unit.
She didn’t smile at that..
He called the girls Mary & the boys Horrors.
He said that, ‘Mary was the mother of god’
& ‘Horace was a great Latin poet
who was alive before the time of Christ.’
He wrote those names on the black board,
but when he talked to us he called us
Mary & Horrors because he said
he didn’t have time to remember our names.
He called the boys Horrors
every time with a grin
& the girls were required to curtsy
when they answered.
Our lovely teacher did not smile at that.
We all loved her very much.
I think she thought
although she didn’t dare to say so in those days
that the inspector of schools
was just a smart arse.
2007
HORACE Quintus Horatius Flaccus
http://jlindsaysmithsketches.blogspot.com/2011/09/quintus.html
No that's not an image of Horace himself. The ancient romans used to decorate coffins with a portrait of the dead on the lid so when I was looking around for a name I hit on 'quincey' after our dog "Q" .. a bitch. The background for the above sketch is from one of my acrylic paintings.
because he would have smiled.
When I was a kid in the country
an inspector of schools came to visit.
He called our sweet lady teacher
an excellent unit.
She didn’t smile at that..
He called the girls Mary & the boys Horrors.
He said that, ‘Mary was the mother of god’
& ‘Horace was a great Latin poet
who was alive before the time of Christ.’
He wrote those names on the black board,
but when he talked to us he called us
Mary & Horrors because he said
he didn’t have time to remember our names.
He called the boys Horrors
every time with a grin
& the girls were required to curtsy
when they answered.
Our lovely teacher did not smile at that.
We all loved her very much.
I think she thought
although she didn’t dare to say so in those days
that the inspector of schools
was just a smart arse.
2007
http://jlindsaysmithsketches.blogspot.com/2011/09/quintus.html
No that's not an image of Horace himself. The ancient romans used to decorate coffins with a portrait of the dead on the lid so when I was looking around for a name I hit on 'quincey' after our dog "Q" .. a bitch. The background for the above sketch is from one of my acrylic paintings.
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