school
a cigarette bookmark
marking my place
in some used Tolkien tome
lit up by a campfire
reading it again
under patio lanterns
school
flipping the cassette tape over
reading Salinger, Hemingway,
Kerouac
Guns and Roses
low in the background
school
filling moleskin
after moleskin
with poems, sketches,
lists of backyard creatures
school
the one or two...(maybe a few)
beautiful authentic teachers
school
from dropout, to teacher,
to old tired monk
