A few haiku etc. from the semi-recent past:
Going to the airport at Thanksgiving
J Turner
Stop start in the dark
Thanksgiving plane clusterfuck
Cargo road again
Desperate people
Struggling to reach far exits
All crawl to O’Hare.
In a restaurant
Short-circuiting: I watch eyes go wide then blank
J Turner
Put that phone down, kid!
Brains misused are brains you lose.
Fried by tiny screens.
Toward the end of a subbing day, math. I will miss West Oak. I love working with these kids.
Algebra basics
J Turner
Please excuse my dear Aunt Sally
PARENTHESES first.
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When the answer’s wrong
Make someone find your mistake.
LEARN WHERE WE LOST YOU.
As Albert and I Fight the Pressure Sore
J Turner
I sketch a dumb tree (maybe it can talk, but it’s not talking to me), avoid my aches and crazy or not crazy, while eating frijoles and waiting for the dark, brown matter to hit the fan.
So definitely not my master plan.
Buy my new book “The Common Core Wasteland” by Jocelyn Turner. Or try “Fighting the White Knight,” which came first. Or take a nap. Naps are always good.
