Burning Down The House — Burned all my notebooks. What good are notebooks? They won’t help me survive. My chest is aching, burns like a furnace. The burning keeps me alive. — The Talking Heads, “Love During Wartime” Stop talking. Don’t move. Just sit, consume, and be consumed While the house burns down. …

We Don’t Need Another Hero We don’t need another hero — We need about one zero zero zero zero to save us from the hopelessness and fear — oh, you’re thinking, Here’s another weirdo. You’re thinking we just need to build some muscle. All we need is one more two-bit hustle in this…

To Robert Frost — The cows and mules still need attention; The chickens always want their feed. There’s the midday egg collection, But not much else that might impede The unabashed pursuit of play. For half of half a year I’m freed From mowing grass and baling hay, Plowing earth and sowing seed. No lambs to birth…

Adventures in trying to play and sing at the same time — I saw a — shit I saw a werewolf with a Chinese — shit I saw a menu with a Chinese werewolf in his hand — oh, what the fuck?! I saw a werewolf with a Chinese menu in his hand Walking — fuck Walking through the streets of SoHo in the rain He was…

ALWAYS. Be teaching. — Let me have your attention for a moment. So you’re talking about what? Bitching about that extra class? Some son of a bitch don’t wanna do his homework? Somebody don’t want what you’re selling? Some parent you’re trying to hustle? Let’s talk about something important. Put. That coffee. Down. Coffee…

Things have not changed much in 400 years. — Many of America’s oldest schools were constructed on stolen land using the stolen labor of enslaved people. Our colleges and universities continue to demonstrate their dedication to those old practices by exploiting and abusing workers and harming students. They refuse to return stolen land to its rightful owners. They cynically…

It’s gonna be killer. — Romeo and Juuliet are the most popular couple at Surf Shores High School, and they have been planning their double suicide since the beginning of their sophomore year. They’ve set a date (Easter), selected a venue (the trampoline park where they met), sent out invitations, picked out fashionable outfits, and…

I ended with about 30. — Normally, 46 is a great number. In my busiest semesters, I have had over 100 students, mostly in writing-intensive classes. If all of my classes had been full this semester, I would have had close to 100 students. I know that many teachers at all levels have many more than…