Thursday, October 11, 2012

mdccxxxiii

Flag of Hand Cramp

Please believe me when I say
I can’t get through this.  Your
presence is required.  I could
call the police, if need be.

Somewhere a student is writing
I will not text during class.
One hundred times.  With
chalk.  I’m sorry that

you don’t get the picture.
It’s symbolic.  Of holiness
or naive virtue.  But it’s
meant to make you think

of me.  I wasn’t born
with this name.  But it
is a work.  It is a piece
or pieces.  A stairway

to the belfry and not a
bunch of crap (unless
it’s bats in the attic).
This business of

enjoying life.  A
storm subsiding.
A point about trust.
We have yet to learn

what triggers
these events.  If not
for the handwritten
documentation we’d

all be newly re-
modeled parents. 
With potential.

virtue