Confessions
of a History Teacher
I’m hearing voices about the
Gettysburg Address
Confused, Kennedy’s daughter is
Ambassador to Japan
Wishing I could quote more
Churchill, Nehru
How trivial, history, keeping me
out of the street
Where my boys squander evenings
on soccer
Pages of time, inconsequential,
911, Bay of Pigs
Seized by Cold War, Mao Zedong,
genocides
Unable to talk with my wife about
the dishes
How much more meaning to watch
the flames
Catatonic, than read interminable
books
Capture perfect arches of kicked
balls in sky
Than page through the past when
now shrieks
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