My teacher in Creative writing 101
Central Washington State College
Teacher of the year almost every year
Had to be to get me to write a poem
I was a basketball player who hated poetry
I didn't want to go to college for knowledge
I was floating a "D" plus in high school
To play basketball had to bring it to a "C"
You see it was probation--they put it to me
Get a poem published in Writer's Magazine
The only poem in class you will have to write
It was, "Let no Man be denied!" June 1964
A foot injury took me out for the season
But this teachers mastery kept me in school