Varieties of Pedagogical Experience
As the crow flies: exquisite banking
thru pines & hemlock: Flash Gordon
surfing the sky.
Up a level: wing-tipped buzzards, slow
spiraling stealth bombers, slant wise.
On the ground: chickadees & sparrows—
hop, hop, hopping: skip to the loo my
darlings, my daring do.
***
It’s not necessarily the case that Dadaists
& Surrealists hated the common sense (in
their mocking perversions and put-downs):
but that they felt its dominance eclipsed
the larger resource of nonsense and
no-sense-at-all and consequently:
look where our ignore-ance has
landed us.
***
Point me out the happy man and I
will point you out the egotism,
selfishness, evil or else an absolute
ignorance.
If one knew, he wondered, the facts:
would one have to feel pity even for
the planets? If one reached what
they call the heart of the matter?
Graham Greene The Heart of the Matter
***
Contact Hours
of course, regulate
consistently across
the bored, no hob-
goblin but efficient
reduction to digital
accountability that
magical analogical
process of learning
behaviors: square
of students arms
crossed across their
chest, arms crossed
over their chest.
“Better write this
down!” I instruct.
“It’ll be on the
final examination."
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