[stylist] Poem - "Reed College" - Final Draft

Wed Jul 15 19:21:40 UTC 2015

Jackie

Thanks for the good words and for the appreciation.  The writing comes and goes, right now I'm in a dry spell.  It isn't "writer's block" per se (I know what I want to write next.  It's more like no energy and little motivation at the time (I hope that changes soon).

Anyway, once again thanks.

Shawn

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Shawn,
I attended in 1947, fall until the end of fall the next year.  I was horribly homesick even though I had an Aunt living in Ames. I registered for a major in Home Economics, but had to take basic classes. Never figured out why chemistry was necessary to Home Ec.!
Yes, I remember you writing about Iowa in a way I related to, and I wrote about the campenelle, if I did not mix that up with Syracuse where I got my undergraduate degree after working in the drudge world for a couple of years.
I really enjoy your prolific writing though I do not always get to remarking on it. When I answer everything, I do not write. Right now, I am reading the last Slate and Style, and I  do want to get off comments on all of you wonderful writers in this latest issue.
Jackie Lee

Time is the school in which we learn.
Time is the fire in which we burn.
Delmore Schwartz	 

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Jackie

Sounds like a horrible experience.

BTW--when did you go to Iowa State?  I think you may have said in a different Email, but I have misplaced the memory.

Shawn

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Bill,
This brings back a painful time in my life. I first went to Iowa State College where my  father had gotten his Ph.D. in chemistry and was a revered teacher.
I flunked chemistry with an I, meaning I had to take it over, and would get the grade I earned the second time. Not much better. This in a family where anything but an A was considered flunking!
And so it goes when you follow other than your own passions.
I liked the poem. Truly accessible.

Jackie Lee

Time is the school in which we learn.
Time is the fire in which we burn.
Delmore Schwartz	 

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HI Poets,

Here's one I wrote some time ago, but which I haven't really shown to anybody.  I think it's a pretty friendly poem, but then I would, being its papa and all.

--Bill

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Reed College

It's a school of global fame,

thronged with wits and prodigies.

a scholar's earth: I flunked,

though I clearly belonged.

There's a joke in that,

though it's taken thirty years to laugh.

I've come to awareness, call it,

by other paths.I've studied

magicians and witches, the wisdom

gain from walking backwards

through mirrors, and forwards

through minds also untroubled by schools,

by rules of mental engagement.

There's joy in that, and reason and rue,

like walking kneewise through desert,

sweltering sick

and finding fountains cold,

and gracious as mother.

It's surprising, sustaining and true:

I don't recommend it.

-- 

"Oh, Sophie!  Whyfore have you eated all de cheeldren?"

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