Back to School (coda)

Lincoln School 1

You never noticed the fine
print on the box
your school arrived in:
some disassembly required.
It’s a learning experience, though,
no doubt. First
you must discard all the memories
in separate, government-
approved locations,
then extract your transcripts as if
they were nests of copper wire
& lengths of pipe
to be shipped off to China.
The bricks must be given passing grades
so they can advance
to the next life. Then
you will find a small, bar-coded label
on the bottom step.
This will be your history.

One Reply to “Back to School (coda)”

  1. Reading backwards, as one does, and coming to this before the original post was interesting. Looks a kind of post-modern Delphi…

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