1/27/2008

The Trauma of Ignorance

When you reach the edge,
the history professor said...

his students squirming
in wooden chairs, tapping
their feet, watching the hands
of the big industrial clock.

When you reach the edge
be sure to bring a parachute
.

No one was listening.

Now I knew that most of us
would die from falling-

an unplanned, careless
violent ending.

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