I taught seventh and eighth graders, tried hard to be tough like the professors had said, not to let them get anything by. But wuss I was, struggling to hold on, to keep some kind of control. Forty-three years have […]
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Oops!
NaHaiWriMo poetry prompt for September 17: OOPS! Write about something that turns out not quite the way you had planned. A mistake, clumsiness, thinking one thing but doing another, slipping, sliding, goofing, embarrassing yourself to yourself or others, awkwardness etc. […]
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Too Late
I feel like an idiot, standing here, conversing with a rock. Why I should have come makes no sense, seems pointless, cruel even. Heck, I didn’t come when they planted you here, haven’t been these twenty years since, shouldn’t be […]
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