Les Miserable Outcomes

      MEASURABLE OUTCOMES

     “I write each day without hope

      and without despair”  Anais Nin

My spam-to-Faculty Courses With Out Borders
& Analogies Across the  Curriculum Service Project
(you know: back & forth he says she says grooving
in academia) is like 1unto gripping a stuck  jelly jar
top  trying to break open the apple  butter bottle, say,
banging the lid, pouring it under hot water, twisting
it  with one  of them rubber grippers  or dishtowels,
tapping  along the  sides with a teaspoon, praying

& holding it in the light bless its heart and making
no progress but knowing someone will come along
later and violins it’ll open like a box of chocolates,
easy as  Sunday morning.