Today is also Valentine’s, and so
For the schoolchildren little candy hearts
As we remember from our happy youth
Teenagers like them still, and so they should
Now lessons follow: the four elements
Of Anglo-Saxon poetry, history
Chemistry, a turn in the auto shop:
Yeats’ happy “ceremonies of innocence”
And in the afternoon, Mass, and ashes,
And the cleaners tidy up candy wrappers
Instead of corpses
Feb 14, 2018
Feb 14, 2018 at 11:02 PM UTC
Today is also Valentine’s, and so
For the schoolchildren little candy hearts
As we remember from our happy youth
Teenagers like them still, and so they should
Now lessons follow: the four elements
Of Anglo-Saxon poetry, history
Chemistry, a turn in the auto shop:
Yeats’ happy “ceremonies of innocence”
And in the afternoon, Mass, and ashes,
And the cleaners tidy up candy wrappers
Instead of corpses