Matho Teacherus Babbleonia
It seems to hit almost at once,
From the moment they begin to talk,
Unfortunately, there’s no vaccine
yet engineered by that famous Dr. Salk.
I’d like to tell my math teacher
She bores me quite to death,
but the result would only be
one giant fat red “F.”
And so this incurable disease
will continue through the ages,
The only thing one can do is
blankly stare at the assigned pages.
composed by Tracy Wrighton
written between 1979 – 1989
discovered in spring cleaning of 2010
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Thursday, May 13, 2010
Saturday, December 26, 2009
Always a Favorite -- "Mauricio's Song" by Eugene Gloria
From Mobil Gas he emerges
Like a Mack truck from the desert horizon.
You might think of bluefin tunas
Coursing the algid sea.
A man with a singular purpose
Always walks with his best foot forward-
Leans in to dusk, moon heavy on his back.
Mauricio has punched out at the station.
If you happen to see him
You might remark on the butterflies-
The small cloud of yellow, speckled wings
Fluttering like wayward kites around him.
You might even reconsider
Your faith in miracles,
Your capacity
To comprehend the mystery.
You could be going to the market
And have already made a list.
You could be as still as a tinsel tree
Illuminated by a spinning color wheel
In a room of immobile silhouettes.
You could have your face
Pressed against the windowpane-
Your chest, a bodiless blouse
And puffy as our Winter faces.
You could be standing in a living room
Full of boxes with your fears in tight little bundles.
You could be Mauricio Babilonia
On his way to a rendezvous, his hands
Cracked and stained with axle grease,
Black as the night gathering at his feet.
And butterflies, impossible and constant,
Brushing against his cheeks
Like a hundred kisses, the papery wings
Of golden monarchs calligraphed
With untranslatable sonnets for one Mauricio Babilonia
On his way to meet his love behind a wall
He will climb, but not fast enough
For the bullet that would seek out his heart.
Gloria, Eugene. Drivers at the Short-Time Motel. The national poetry series. New York: Penguin Books, 2000.
Like a Mack truck from the desert horizon.
You might think of bluefin tunas
Coursing the algid sea.
A man with a singular purpose
Always walks with his best foot forward-
Leans in to dusk, moon heavy on his back.
Mauricio has punched out at the station.
If you happen to see him
You might remark on the butterflies-
The small cloud of yellow, speckled wings
Fluttering like wayward kites around him.
You might even reconsider
Your faith in miracles,
Your capacity
To comprehend the mystery.
You could be going to the market
And have already made a list.
You could be as still as a tinsel tree
Illuminated by a spinning color wheel
In a room of immobile silhouettes.
You could have your face
Pressed against the windowpane-
Your chest, a bodiless blouse
And puffy as our Winter faces.
You could be standing in a living room
Full of boxes with your fears in tight little bundles.
You could be Mauricio Babilonia
On his way to a rendezvous, his hands
Cracked and stained with axle grease,
Black as the night gathering at his feet.
And butterflies, impossible and constant,
Brushing against his cheeks
Like a hundred kisses, the papery wings
Of golden monarchs calligraphed
With untranslatable sonnets for one Mauricio Babilonia
On his way to meet his love behind a wall
He will climb, but not fast enough
For the bullet that would seek out his heart.
Gloria, Eugene. Drivers at the Short-Time Motel. The national poetry series. New York: Penguin Books, 2000.
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