XIII

another college-level poem

9-10-08
academia
& we sit
we listen & note take
learn in increments
to be a novice
in any given field

disengage the senses
a degree and a chemical
addiction
or two
vocabulary expands in the
short term

courses are whispers
attentive humor
internal dialog discussion
in the distance
echoes & shuffling hands
rotating chairs clicking pens
wandering eyes

calm unfound in high schools
pretension mounting & squashed
anxious ambitious silence
we sink in doubt & debt