Lab Coats

The Big Hominid has been fighting a running battle with his employers over wearing a lab coat to teach English classes.

For an introspective gent

with a philosophical bent

I must say

Without delay

That BigHo really should

Mood or no mood

Put on the lab coat

It won't hurt his scrote

He signed a job contract

Perhaps an inconvenient fact

But if he takes the pay

They can tell him how to play

It may be a joke

Wearing a lab coat*

I'll confess its silly and dumb

But when the day is done

He cashes that EC check

So while their policy may be dreck

Wear the darn coat

Without an admonishing post-pay meeting note**

Aside from the contract

I'll pursue another tact

A principled stand

By a principled man

Is well and good, just ask Thoreau, Gandhi, and King

But with civil disobedience there is a little thing

About taking the responsibility for the rule breach

But when you are in Korea to teach

Your refusal to conform

And adhere to the norm

Doesn't land you in the klink, alack and alas

It will be your supervisors who take it in the ass

So, Buddhist scholar

I shouldn't have to holla!***

Set aside your self and think of the group

Don't make your supervisor the dupe

A gaijin**** you may be, so privileges accrue,

But letting others take the fall ought to be beneath you.

Thanks very much.
I'm here through Sunday. Try the veal.

* We are the folksong army it doesn't have to rhyme
** And it doesn't matter if we put a couple of extra syllables into a line
*** Holla back young 'uns! What? It works for rappers! What? Do I need more profanity?
**** What, gaijin is Japanese? Well aren't you the Far East scholar?