Seriously, My Last Day Teaching High School
The act –
A heartbreaking slight-of-hand…
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Taming the alphabet
I’M STILL
We teachers are a docile lot Teaching this world’s polyglot Glued to plans and kids alike Don’t ask us what Continue reading
HOME WORK
I’m tired Of the look Insolence interrupted By the jaundiced-whites Harbingers of your future What do I care? Of your Continue reading
Flunking Retire -ment
I have flunked that good, after life Leaving desk, chalk, and youth sublime Eight years and a clarion Continue reading
Another Turkey Day : Another Fight
I’ve had many Thanksgivings in my lifetime – 64 to be exact. Some Thanksgivings were solemn while some were in Continue reading
NOV. 15, 2015: Headlines – A Poem
Attackers in Paris / did not give anyone a chance/ as if chance played with motive…
THINKING OF SUICIDE WHEN THE HEAD- LINES SHOULD BE ENOUGH
Send Kevorkian away His services unnecessary For the slow death That comes from the congenital Uncontrollable urge To read the daily Continue reading
A Country For No Child
Originally posted on Gwen's World:
Jaime Kalenga, whose mother died in labor, suffers from malnutrition and tuberculosis. Credit Nicholas Kristof/The New…
