This tortured verse, otherwise known as verseyless goes back to about 1991. Management had decided my colleagues in IT and I were in need of some motivational inspiration, so we had lunch with the ubiquitous, "Motivational Speaker." The speaker repeatedly referred to us as Computer Gurus. At first it was just annoying.Then it got irritating. Finally, it set off the muses which produced the nearby bit of verse purely without my advice and consent.

WELL G-G-GURU TO YOU TOO!

Are you a guru?
Of course not. Are you?

Well I was at one time
but its no longer what I'm.

So you used to be one
and now your are done
but there must be a reason
for this reversal of season.

You seem so certain
of what you are not
I suspect you have
given it considerable thought.

Well, you see it occured to me
one day when I was out Guru-ing
that I wasn't at all in tune
with the goals others were pursuing.

My disciples had concerns
past the bounds of my teaching
and the rest of the world
I was not even reaching.

So I said to myself.
Yo! self I said.
This is no way for a
Guru to get ahead.

Then what did you
decide to do
when you found no venue
for a working Guru?

Why, I moved to a higher plane
and sought Nirvana there.
Like the flowers of the fields and the birds of the air
I went on welfare.

And what do you say
to an aspiring youth
who wishes to become
a dispenser of truth?

There is only one place
for a committed Guru
to get fed and housed
and acknowledgement too,
in most places its just
called the public zoo!