(said by an imaginary teenager to his English teacher)
Is that all we have for homework? I was hoping for more. Maybe a poem about the power of a happy heart, or an essay about silence flowing through a life with a light
in its hands. Could we please diagram some sentences so we can see the words sitting like blossoms on their branches? Could we study some new vocabulary words so we can listen to their voices, so we can stand
in the green grass of their freshness?
Or what about some grammar exercises,
those stylish puzzles that shimmer
in the light of our desk lamps? Please.
We need to get back the glow that seeing verbs and adverbs side by side
in friendship gives us. Or what about this – could we build one of those airplanes called paragraphs, and try to make it fly? Please?
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