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Monday, June 06, 2022

Daydreaming During Lecture

You, Quiet Kid in Class
sit in the Back Corner
write Whatever It Is
that you’re always writing
in that notebook of yours
with that leather cover
and those split ends, and that
faded yellow paper.

You write with a Pencil
that looks like it’s Shedded
way too many of its
Shavings. I wonder what
the Sharpener looks like.

Is it Homework that you
write? Doodles? Chicken Scratch?
Love Notes? Journal Entries?
Poems? Are you like me?
Death Threats? Brainstorms? Rough Drafts?
Shopping Lists? Agendas?

Or are you just taking
notes for the class we share
together each Tuesday?

You write with your left hand
and tuck your hair behind
your pierced ear with your right
without missing a beat
or dropping that Pencil
for even a second.

I want to be your friend.
I want to know where that
Pencil of yours has been —
what that thing has written —
for it to get that small.

Are you attached to it?
Are you deeper than the
role that you’ve been given?

You, Quiet Kid in Class,
pick My Corner next time.

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