Monthly Archives: July 2008

Dream About Students Over the Summer

10th
Jul. × ’08

I am moving.
My stepmother’s exercise weights do not fit.I leave them unpacked.(I’ll find room for themsomewhere, somehow.)
Suddenly I am standing — the corner, you and your friends13 and cliquey.I am happy to see youthis is just like classexcept we’re on the streetsand you’re excited to see me.You write hurriedly on chart paperI pull from my [...]

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Alexander Pope/Dismissal

10th
Jul. × ’08

Time was synchronizedin the Garden of Eden I think,as you pluraltell meit is timefor dismissal.
Universal three pmand other costsof the knowledge tree accrue, (the modern mind has not been kindto absolutes,devouring measly crumbsas sustenance for propulsion). I should throw the clockacross the classroomsmash your watchmake a sceneshow you what it means—what what means?What does [...]

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