send me back in time to ninth grade
or earlier; I will know just what to do
walk out and never return, but to the
library. it may be many more years
before a full recovery can be made
from twenty years of group solitude
seated confinement constricting the
flow of ideas and blood and life
nothing against those dedicated
individuals, hoping to impart insight
they were deceived as much as we
in the notion that insight can be
imparted under duress; and I have yet
to see a definition of applied misery
that could not fit the average classroom
Roman Ryan 