Friday, August 20, 2021

Poem: August 20, 2021

All in a Day’s Work

Today we talked about football

and radios and National Toothfairy Day.


We referenced the Hero’s Journey

and Grendel, the Norman conquest


as well as the Anglo Saxons, 

Christianity and Paganism and point of view.


We took a class selfie (fully masked),

and found time to chat about the history of makeup.


The cost of class sets of books came up

and how we find the money to cover the cost.


And we got lost for a while in iambic pentameter

and Shakespeare’s mistress and second best bed.


And, of course, Disney World was mentioned

before we landed on Hemingway


and elephants and abortions and drinks

and all the things that go unsaid.


And on the way out the door one student

mentioned that she felt like an adult in class today.


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