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The reading of this text is much more enjoyable if you listen to "I've got this friend" of The Civil Wars.

I've got this friend

I don't think you know him

He's too much for words

that could fill all the blank pages

emptied out of meaningless promises.

Aldo is a friend of mine

So is he of his cheeky students

whose lesson is mentally set up

from a clumsy nurse

who looks after quick-tempered

and heart-broken elders

and floods a river of tears, secretly held back,

over a caring little sister.

Yet he's a shy man, who

at the age of twenty-eight

would never yell at crooked students,

living within an uninhabitable classroom,

which will never inhibit him from teaching

even that baritone pupil who

talks back to him and

walks to the top of the desk

shouting

<<O Captain, my Captain!>>

off the rooftops

Although Aldo just tried to involve a bunch of passive students, asking

<<What is love, according to you guys?>>

during the explanation of 5th "Canto" of his "Dante"

brought underarm out the classroom, on the run, after the bell rings.

So his brittle voice would never tell his students

or anyone else

about all the unstable jobs he had.

It didn't when Aldo faced her student

who saw his white coat dyed to the colour of "Signora G.'s dinner"

It'd rather talk about Life's beauty

<<I remember when Life was easier>>

to encourage careless teenagers to live fully their own lives

And if he could talk more, he would have told his students

that he had fallen in love three times, so three times he had been turned down

dreaming the presence of a boyfriend.

In fact he's gay, but that's not the most important thing

Now

He is going to tell you about something funny

because you suddenly became silent

Once he worked at a fastfood

whose boss was a"hot hunk"

When Aldo was accidentally left alone in a refrigerating room

<<The guy was obviously straight>> but erotic dreams

flooded in anyway.

<<Don't tell anyone about this!>>

Don't worry, Aldo.

I think that nobody could ever believe that the roles of 

a teacher

a nurse

an "every - job" worker

a big-brother

a friend

belong to the same

person.