so february stops... suddenly... we have arrived. everybody off.

the blog experience continues. we are almost done with huck finn... and huck finn projects are due next week. the seniors are gearing up for poetry presentations... or so i would like to think.

on lower-case pretensions... not to be confused with Upper-Case Pretensions. i type this way not because i have unresolved e. e. cummings issues (even he got over it after a while) but because i don't care for the shift key. so i'm closer to don marquis, whose lower case vers libre rose from archy the cockroach's inability to manage the shift key. for casual purposes like this the shift is mostly forgot... consider me a cockroach if you want. i do remember to shift when i'm writing to moms or dads or when i'm typing up english department minutes (as i did this week... it was not fun) or when i'm typing letters of recommendation to impress admission boards... see... i know my place... within these carefully specified parameters... if not within the more general scheme of things.

and lower-case is how i'm feeling most of the time. i'm not an upper-case kind of guy. lower-case is much easier to get along with... see... you can deal with this steady stream of little letters much easier than THIS HEARTY BARRAGE OF CAPS ALL PUFFED UP AND SCREAMING HEY!!! LOOK AT ME I GOT SOMETHING TO SAY AND EVERYBODY ELSE BETTER SHUT UP AND LISTEN CUZ THIS IS REALLY IMPORTANT...AND MISTER THIS MEANS YOU TOO! ...man... give us a break... give me a lower-case pretense any day... though i have to admit i've got my upper-case moments... times when i'm feeling positively whitmanesque or bold as mayakovsky or even frank o'hara (before the dune buggy)... but... leaky balloon that i am... can't hold the puff for long... without laughing. i'm a lower-case guy...

i know some of you will say: but brtom yr better than that... bur brtom you rock my world. to which i say: thanks but i'm only pretty good sometimes and a bit less than that most others. to which i say: don't blame me if yr world is rocking - try one less cup of coffee for the road.

i do not think a prudent one
will ever aim too high
a cockroach seldom whips a dog
and seldom should he try

don marquis

 

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