Reanimated Lavender Granola Switchblade Nun rides again.

Saturday, August 29, 2009

The Night School



In the night school,

lessons are available in

English grammar,

vivisection,

and the supernatural.


All classes are self-taught.

Ague,

sex,

and substance abuse of all kinds are strictly prohibited,

if nonetheless ubiquitous.


Come down this hallway.

Leave your little candle with the matron.

Leave everything you hold precious crammed inside your cubby;

the night janitor will get rid of it.

Learn to scream silently.

Learn to live without skin.

Learn poetry.

Learn poetry.

Learn poetry.


Such practices

do not belong above ground

among crowds,

in the commonplace glare of simple respectable daylight.

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11 comments:

  1. Count me in...what time does class start?

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  2. I'll skip the first semester. No cutting open frogs for me. I'll take the second semester of learn poetry, learn poetry, learn poetry.

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  3. I audited night school for the ostracized once. Loved it.
    ~Mary

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  4. At midnight of course, DW.

    Pouty, no frogs. (Have you ever seen the movie "Foxfire", where Angelina saves the frog?) Ernest Hemingway said writing is easy...just sit in front of your typewriter and bleed. That's the vivisection I was getting at.

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  5. Do I dare say, that one whom can find poetry in the light of day, must be constantly surrounded by the darkness of this place? Very 'cool'

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  6. Kinda like the school of hard knocks.

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  7. I hope this wasnt inspired by a dream .. or if it was that you got back to sleep and had a nicer one

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