Wednesday, June 24, 2015

four degrees (and FUSION) [2010]

1.
I am a pupil dilated
and exposed
after an odd learning
  I've observed them
approaching
with a mild curiosity
but have given them
little consideration
or time
2.
squeezed last
into the lying gap
between semicolon
and conclusion
what statement 
would then be made?
this desk is meant
in several languages
to seat a child
3.
what if they conceptualized
an intellectual way
to grip mortality
and choke it down?
  it is too dark here
for just any light
          and a struck match
          might scorch the coupling
of reason and other

                                                         FUSION
a.
campus life can offer a wide array of colorful opportunities for the properly motivated and ambitious student
b.
once one has counted the number of steps between 
buildings     and measured the distance from the stage 
                                                         to the front row     and dropped a pebble into the well 
                                                         and ventured through the stagnant crowds     only  
                                                         then can he begin to know how much time will be   
                                                         wasted

c.
other
4.
orientation does not
prepare the students
for any degree of hunger
and the cafeteria 
can only fail them
if I were half conscious
as one might normally be
could this have thus far gone 
          so effortlessly?

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