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David’s Dream You’re not ready for the convent yet. —David Del Tredici He said that he dreamed that everyone was meeting at the baths tonight except me. I’ll be teaching there in the morning so I couldn’t go. Well, he’s got my number all right, I’m no fun. I talk liberation but my actions show otherwise, and he dreams me as I really am, a ruler-snapping nun keeping the class in line. My image is definitely bad. I only show up at the baths when morning guilt lights up the shabby linoleum and the employees are scrubbing the love juice off the walls and ceilings of the orgy room, and the customers are putting on their jeans anxious to go home. That’s when I arrive with my attendance book and a sad sack stuffed with experience, teaching what I don’t believe in and nobody wants to hear. THE LESSON If all you can do is teach don’t do it at the baths. 121 If you go to the baths don’t go in the morning. And if you go into the steam room take off your habit, baby, and leave your ruler home. 122 ...

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