Juvenilia


CoNsOnAnCe


If my reader were illiterate
I would have to break into the word-hoard
and kill the eye.


A)   BECAUSE OF THE AGONIZING FAT PRIMER PENCIL
  CIRCLING PHONETIC EXERCISES
  COUNTING ONE TWO THREE
  THE AGONISING FAT PRIMER PENCIL
  MOVING BETWEEN THE GUIDING LINES
  horizontal thin
  horizontal thick


E)   because of the smeared choking at the chalkboard
  tipping the spelling script crooked
  in addition to chalkdust checkmarks


I)   because of red margin guarding
  sentences paragraphing blotchy pens
  through long hand division


O)   because of typewriter asterisk, colon and
  cartesian geometry demanding
  middles, beginnings, and ends.


U)   because of machines
  housing
  museums   libraries   archives


but Y

remember as ours
crayon scribling
green golden gurgles
before

grown blind
plucked the one who can not w e e d



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