<html><head></head><body style=”word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;”>Prompt about pressure to get good grades one of the workshop students talked about:<div><br></div><div>I often want</div><div>To drop out.</div><div>I give myself C’s and D’s</div><div>And</div><div>Everyone else</div><div>The A’s:</div><div><br></div><div>I want to drop</div><div>Into the well</div><div>And disappear </div><div>And</div><div>Fall into the place</div><div>Get the key </div><div>To the secret garden </div><div>Like Alice</div><div>And</div><div>Go to Wonderland </div><div>Where everything </div><div>Is backwards upside down</div><div>And familiar,</div><div>Where the only grade</div><div>Is a gradation or a grave </div><div>Where Report Cards</div><div>Talk and Argue with</div><div>Each other </div><div>About what they’re </div><div>Reporting, fighting over cards.</div><div><br></div><div>Then they flap open</div><div>And turn into birds-</div><div>Ravens flapping their wings</div><div>Making V’s in the sky</div><div>On a crayon drawing</div><div>On the fridge.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></body></html>
6 Impossible Things For Breakfast 