An 18 Year Old Girl’s Response to: “It’s o.k. to be Smart” Four queens in a deck of 52, a common known fact to her at age 18 She can sense a learned-irrelevance in the number of cards, every time her house collapses They wont be counted once dismantled and scattered dormant at her feet She does not know She doesn’t know The difference of six fives, or half past the hour The diction has no influence on the meaning, when all she can think is thirty minutes have passed and the fact that she’ll be marked late Late: a concept, only a short decade ago, at age eight she only began to comprehend Similar to 1/3 or 2/3 Which is larger? The answer to this one comes to her a few years too late Sometime after her eighth grade year she looked down at herself and mistook that fraction of an inch as something of importance Some years ask us question Some years answer them Each either relief or further confusion Now she counts her arms hands and feet This year taught her she’s lucky to have them all
I wrote this with a very scattered mind and a children’s book