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Phillip Coffey - Substitute Teacher

Detention Center Glow by Phillip Coffey

There was a meeting of the mimes-once
But nobody knew or even heard tell of it.
Their fancy hand flay motions and leg kicks
Back and forth-both high and low-with tapped
Unheard foot work.


Their smile detached from everywhere and everyone
As though they be in a Detention Center Glow.
But there I sat with all the commotion in the air
At my backward notion-taking notes of all the commencing.

They did excel as I have been told but never really knew
Or heard or felt ever any pain, sadness or other emotion.
Nearly combative-soon shared my much experienced spill
Shortly before they began escaping out the raised windows.

As I arose from my esteemed chosen seat with minor pangs.
An attached sharpened tack in my rear end-splintered.

All of this occurred in my experience of Teacher-Substitute.


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