Post-Literate, Neo-Oralcy Amnion

“Age is no better, hardly so well, qualified
       for an instructor as youth,"  (HDT)

My student’s are way older than I am.

Never the less they arrive at 8 a.m.

with laptops and I-Pads and tablets

and photo phones and look to me for

instruction-for-credit.

While I inform them on “Fiction: an

Introduction,” they vet what I say on

line, varieties  of literary experience,

before I finish a paragraph because

they can.

Some sneak-video-ize me &  my
charisma surreptitious to send off
to buddies at Macalester, say, or
Hampshire—other liberal schools.

Look: be here now

(school and be schooled)

Can you see us now?

Much older than me—media literate

and tech-savvy like anything.

“Here,” I say, power pointing for
 emphasis. “10 salient characteristics
of Fiction.”

Remember them.