Sunday, July 01, 2007

What can they teach me?

What can they teach
me
that I already didn't know?
the sun the moon the earth....
the ants to the elephants
zygotes and amoebas
carry the one
helium hydrogen iron
iron
inertia slope
velocity
as x approaches zero
solve for y
Monet manet Robert Williams
Freud
solve for x
napoleon burke Aristotle
Proust Joyce
and Pynchon
the Romans
Mayans
the Iberians
multiply by pie....

all the fancy book learning
doesn’t
didn’t and isn't worth a damn
I have figured this out on my own
I am in love with you,
and all words and knowledge
have failed me
on how to keep you
from
leaving.

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