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Lesson Plan If old T. S. were here he’d tell us that’s a different way of thinking. Doubt first appeared in poetry with the Victorians. Romantics reaffirm the old values. Old things. Jingle and recital preserve the lore in stable forms. That’s democracy for you. The question is how to preserve it even more and get prettier. Dinner-prayers generally disappear by the time the children are in high school. In adulthood, they reappear at holidays. Morning-prayer, paired with morning dreams of swimming with ancestral appaloosas, walked out on legs years ago. If someday you meet your lover’s children, don’t say to them that sounds very Greek, or gyno-erotic. When you say you don’t understand me, or that you buy into the power-structure, or tell me to knock down the goldenretriever -sized icicles so they don’t kill any children playing beneath them, you make me feel terrible. Through all your work, riddling history and weeping for three days – remember that today I’m unusually severe. 63 ...

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