Had to use Arnold's "Dover Beach" as an essay prompt today. Not a fun hang Arnold. I would not invite him to a strip poker game.

Temps in Virginia bouncing regularly every 3 days from 82 to 52 then back to 82. Serious Search for Spock Genesis Planet shit.

An easy way to spot drug dealers in high school is if two friends sit in your class counting likely easily a hundred one dollar bills atop actual desks and when you ask if they are selling candy bars they shake their heads no. Of course there could be another explanation. I could be dreaming awake.

If a student tried this look at my school other girls would not stop talking about it for eleven days and 70% of that talk would be unkind, but perhaps that would not matter to the truly full of themselves brain waves rocking this out. As for the boys at my school, they do not know how to talk yet.

Whoa, Gen Z technically goes through year 2012 births now? What is going on?

Sometimes I believe if Frida Kahlo had been truly accepted by the Surrealists in France she would have turned into light particles like Jennifer Jason Leigh at the end of Annihilation.

If I was on the Supreme Court and there were Nazis on the Supreme Court, I would call them Nazis every day to their faces. Every morning, Justice Nazi 1, Justice Nazi 2, then all day long after that. I would not care how they felt. I would be a Supreme Court Justice serving for life motherfucker.

My student used my T. S. Eliot Collected hardbound spine as a ruler today because I do not have rulers in my classroom, or band-aids. "Use my T.S. Eliot book!" I said and handed it to her. She did not open it at all she just used it as a ruler.

TriQuarterly is open to fiction submissions. April Fools. No it is actually true. April Fools. Sorry it is really true. April Fools.

Why is Sagittarius the only sign that would take something they could not live without and truly cherished, toss it into a volcano, then never think about it again?

Why is Artemis II trending twice?

I like how Jane Huffman is out here playing Three-Dimensional Chess with her poems meanwhile other poets are barely playing Candyland and many have to cheat at Candyland.

It is pointless to discuss relaxation with anybody who is not from the South period hard stop.

Speaking of Chuck E. Cheese I once visited a town with a little bridge locals called Chuck E. Cheese Bridge because at least three Chuck E. Cheese managers had jumped from it to their deaths.

The Trump Gold Card is less than a year away from being a skee-ball prize counter display item at Chuck E. Cheese no kid selects. They would pick a green plastic glowing spider ring over that and would not even take time to consider that choice. Because kids are smarter than adults.

I do not think counties of cities should have poet laureates and I do not think cities should have poet laureates. Only states and countries should have poet laureates and sometimes I do not think even states should have them. Amiri Baraka in Jersey was correct and acceptable.

I do not celebrate moon launches until astronaut feet step back upon earth. That is just how it goes with me.

Student: "(Another student) asked me to prom and I am going to go with her but I may leave with somebody else" Me: "If you leave that girl at prom we are going to have a serious problem you and I." Student: "Okay I will stay with her the whole time." Me: "I want to see photos."

Student: "Did you know Dr. Suess did not like children?" Me: "I have heard that, but could it be he thought if he liked them he could not write for them?" Student: "Can you explain that?" Me: "No, that is something you will have to discover on your own."

Trump practicing on Supreme Court judges today before some other swifter judges send his ass directly to Hell.

Before poet Natalie Diaz became famous she sat in the chair directly behind me in Spanish class in college. She was also playing point guard for the basketball team. I thought she was so fucking cool and she is.

I like April because it is the month my students completely know I am insane and not just percentages of them thinking that.

If I brought a hot and cold Thermos container back to the 1700's I would be more popular than Cru riding BMX bike at Prom in the best movie of all time Rad featuring the horrible song Send Me an Angel. Lori Loughlin would also be removed from the 1700's version of the dance.

I am not reading any news on April Fools Day tomorrow at all. For all I know Trump will tell me the new younger Supreme Leader of Iran actually paid America to kill his dad and he will not say April Fools afterwards.

It would be interesting if somebody in a little boat (like a canoe) just decided to oar themselves to the Strait of Hormuz and found out nothing was going on there at all. Like calm as a scene from A River Runs Through It. That would actually make more sense.

Student: "1984 was wrong about the government needing human beings to work jobs changing news. It could just change news without human beings." Me: "Wow, nice point--are you certain you are not a banshee? Orwell kind of assumed Oceania would need human beings, even though it did not like them."

One of my best qualities is I do not pretend to be happy if I am not. America really does not like that one.

Milton went completely blind at the age of 43 or as Milton described it the night he was born.

I find myself thinking about the children's book character Chicken Little aka Henny Penny way too much more than anyone should. That chicken was scared as shit and that story was messed up.

When you assign a week-long group assignment and by day two you wish you had not done that at all.

My classroom has become simply a 360 degree book display of every book I believe human beings should be reading at one time.

I brought a Boy's Bathroom Pass with me during the school fire drill today and showed it to the Vice-Principal like the Wayne's World VIP tickets scene.

I like when you are young the first time you go to a poetry reading it is all 70-year-old's and you think this is kind of neat but then when you are still young you go a second time it is still all 70-year-old's and you think I am going to go see a movie by myself instead and what a film it is!

The only way that ballroom is getting finished is when we dance on his grave first and I mean slow dance and fast dance right the fuck over it and upon it too. I want his bones to shake from so much dancing. Some dead people will be doing the Charleston people will be partying so hard.

Who is the Butcher of Iran? Is that like the Barber of Seville?

Had a student try to bribe me with some kind of cheese dip because they all know I eat nachos when I grade essays.

Student: "Is Trump like a Cyberpunk President?" Me: "There is nothing Cyberpunk about him and if somebody at this school told you that tell them come see me I want to look into their eyeballs."

I do not like how the White House is probably going to feature an unconstructed beat to shit ballroom sitting beside it the next 20 years.

The real political divide in this country is people who think America can and should do everything it wants to anybody but especially those who live in other countries, and those of us who not only disagree with that completely we are genuinely appalled by that mindset all of the time.

She did not want me to make a big deal of this but my imaginary friend passed away today. She was 304-years-old but she always looked fresh. Anyway, thanks for the memories.

I also think it would be interesting to allow children to drive cars as long as they are good at it.

So many children speak directly to trees I think we should be looking into that phenomenon. They are not just having fun.

Weird thing about waking life is you always think that it does not live up to your level of intelligence but it always meets your level of intelligence and definitely never surpasses it. So how the fuck does it do that so well? Whatever that answer is it is the key.

Once when I was eleven I roller skated with a complete stranger at a rink. We got pretty close for fifteen minutes. I felt like I had known her my whole life. It was very strange. She told me her name at the end and I do not remember her name and I never saw her again.

Student: "Did you go to the Tibetan Freedom Concert?" Me: "No, I could not afford to go to that." Student: "Did the concert free Tibet?" Me: "Are we going to have a problem this year?" Student: "No" Me: "That concert did not accomplish anything."

Student: "Did people in your generation listen to Juliana Hatfield?" Me: "There is nothing I can say to this to resolve whatever it is you are experiencing."

Robert Creeley should have run for President and won and not communicated with anybody literally walked past senators on his way to Oval Office locked himself inside four years with little refrigerator stocked by helper dogs. Everything would have run smooth. He'd serve one term then disappear.

Reading collected Rimbaud and trying to pronounce original French even though I do not know French. People like to dismiss Rimbaud but I can tell you this: he would have been fun to bring to a video arcade. Give him a bucket of quarters and follow him around.

Tech has gotten so good I think the American public should online vote on every decision our government is thinking about making before they make it. Our votes will not necessarily decide the direction our country goes (when have they ever) but they will be noted and observable.

Resisting depressive urges to consume an entire bag of Life Savers gummies. I think I am going to win for a change.