Do you know the story? If not, Jane Kenyon and Donald Hall were both famous poets (Jane probably the more famous) and husband and wife. Jane died in 1995 after a year-and-a-half-long battle with leukemia. For more online, check out this UVA speech from about 2 years ago: http://www.virginia.edu/uvanewsmakers/newsmakers/hall.html

Do you believe children have the power not to learn what they're taught? Look who's asking the questions now.

I tell myself I'm doing it for myself. Besides, for all my godlessness I do have a huge, undamaged faith in the potential of the human race. Maybe I don't tell people that often enough.

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Cranberry Manishevitz: never scared of ALChemy again shall i be, for you are the undulating shag carpet beneath my bottom, and for you i scoot, the triennial scoot, and slide among the others, to make the shag carpet all go in one direction just in this one part of the room for me and you, so that one year, when your shag grows dull, and my bottom becomes chapped and fearful once again of ALChemy (notwithstanding my previous commitment), we might plop, together, and run our hands atop the carpet to produce gustatory synaesthetia, that will entertain us beyond our final transduction

Sometimes we can overcome the expected and create acceptance.

I think William Golding might disagree. Throw a bunch of white kids and one black kid on a deserted island without adults and the black kid'll be dead in a year.

carnivorous bunch, writers; especially poets. see my 'Let me". But at least we admit we are a brutal bunch..actually revel in it....no shame.

...sigh...thanks.

two, even.

I wondered that too...it isn't clear...is this tow females, or a male and female? and I wasn't sure what the favourite sweet refered to.

Children are not born racist; they have to learn it. Since most of them are taught racism, by the time they grow up it doesn't go away.

Sooner or later it's going to happen. Your mind is mature but your heart's still young Zodiac. You can't save them or the whales. You can only maybe ease their suffering or slow down the process. For a godless man you sure partake alot in his type of work.

Nice bait & switch. Really.

Thank you. I always love it when I have to grab a dictionary while reading a poem. It means I'm about to learn something new.

I was lucky enough to have a teacher that spotted it early in grade school. I barely remember the techniques that were used to help me overcome it. I think it has something to do with reprogramming a different part of your brain to read but I'm not sure. I suppose I should research it more. As someone who has learned alot from you already I can say you are a fine teacher and the world needs more like you.

I got 1 but it's in both stanzas. +10+