In my dreams I'm still a teacher
I instruct the class
In my dreams I still need her
Her hair, her ****, her ***

Also her curious smile
And other things I've told to shrinks
Her womanliness
The feminine mystique

Mr. David Markson
New York City alone
Charlotte, North Carolina
I threw a Rolling Stone

I've been to Los Angeles once
Been to Santa Fe
Silent in the Night
Can't find words to pray

I hope I die peacefully
Say goodbye to my sons
Ashes to the sea
Pero un pequito fun

                 lucky one

Very little influence
Almost none at all
Oxford in the twilight
River Eden, Wetheral

Why then keep writing?
The pleasure of the text
Search my memories
Haunted by my ex

Protection for my son
Sleep late and long
Viva Tel Aviv!
Paul Simon song

Train in the distance
Maybe a spaceship too
Susan Darlene Meek
Susan Meek not Sue

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I'm thirsty thirsty thirsty
Can't quite drink enough
My brother just came back from Mexico
Joan Jett is tough

I keep thinkin' 'bout Reno
Sage Ridge School, big blue sky
The Old Man and the Sea
Holes, Life of Pi

The mystery of race
Science fiction stories
Hasta manyana
All your future glories

California Coast
Tidal pools in Monterrey
Tens of thousands of poems
But silent is the Way

                 y xie xie

So many American Trumpfucks
Ignorance ain't bliss
Donald Trump, J.D. Vance
My *** they can kiss

A little Mexican food
A little basketball
A little traveling
River Eden, Wetheral

              Right, y'all?!

America is racist
My sons callooh! callay!
Maybe aliens
Not much I can say

I've been to Portland, Oregon
Powell's City of Books
Even the teacher has no idea
Just how mean she looks

Postcards in the mail
Quixotic it may be
Childhood in Toledo
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Thank you for my brothers
Exoplanet sky
Please keep them safe
1 for Scott. 1 for Ry.

             Aye! Aye! Aye!

Reno has the big blue sky
And little Sage Ridge School
Dr. Cohen is intelligent
Harold Bloom a fool

I taught Julius Caesar
Assassination warning
Civil war ensues
Politics is storming

Latin for two years
But I wasn't very good
Rome on my honeymoon
And in my neighborhood

Shakespeare in Staunton
Exit 222
Julius Caesar on a winter's night
Dr. Cohen speaking true

                       JMU