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Academic Dust

Contributed by catapult57 on Saturday, 6th February 2010 @ 09:51:03 PM in AEST
Topic: Lifepoems

In the bowels of the library’s

basement floor, behind three

fragile walls of graying

periodicals, I picked at the

frayed sleeve of a blue

oxford shirt and read Dickens’

“Bleak House” until three a.m.,

for a Brit Lit test the next day.

Some called it cramming, I

counted it as preparation.

In the realms of pre-day, I

imagined myself a ragged son

of the moldering aristocracy,

clutching at the manners and morals

of a culture whose time had

passed. I was too cowardly to

rebel against it, and not clever

enough to master its trick-or-treat

maneuvers.

Finally finished, in

that most abjectly solitary time

of night, weary four-thirty,

I gathered my books and notes

and walked among the

collection of my culture’s craft:

those words of explanation, defined

and put into rigorous compartments—

categorized experiences of our mutual entropy.

I slid my shoe through this

academic dust and left to make my way

to my room, to fall, so softly,

into sleep.

Copyright Â© catapult57 ... [ 2010-02-06 21:51:03]
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Re: Academic Dust (User Rating: 1 )
by Spike on Sunday, 7th February 2010 @ 04:07:10 AM AEST
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What an engaging narrative; beautifully worded and so emotive. An instant favourite.

Spike

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