who rolled his
stone-bored eyes
at a carefully prepared
explanation of the miraculous
subtraction by addition, if you can
read it, you will know the boy
couldn’t give two shits
about columns and digits
not when there are sleeping owls
to slap from the trees, knee-high fields
of thorny weeds to stomp in bare feet
so many wings
to pull from the bees
this morning
in an underfunded cuneiform
lab, some poor sap stirs
her cold coffee with hermeneutics
she is going to crack
this tablet, she is just seconds
away and on the verge
of the last, great
human translation:
when will we, like, ever need
to know this, you know, like
in real life
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hahaaa, no doubt
ReplyDeleteWell, like, I'm sure such thoughts surface, like you know, frequently in the minds of home-schooled youth!
ReplyDeleteI’m with the boy!! I choose a walk in the woods, a wade in the creek! Cheers.
ReplyDeleteOkay we may not need it in real life but hopefully a grain of curiousity will now be in ones brain to at least be inquisitive!
ReplyDeleteA sheer delight! I loved all your details about the boy and the lab worker, and especially the slangy finale. (Which has surely been said by many generations of students in whatever the slang of the day was.)
ReplyDeleteStudents never change...
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