Wednesday, November 5, 2008

classroom notes #3: putting on a performance


A teacher...

Dances like a clown.
Gestures wildly like a crazed mime.
Pulls more faces than a monkey.
Circles the classroom as on a trapeze.
Balances like an acrobat.
Juggles, sings, and dances, sometimes all simultaneously.
Flaps, quacks, whoops, and hollers.

We are an entire circus...

... sometimes played to a dead crowd.

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