Know the Teacher Left Behind

Know the Teacher Left Behind

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I awoke from my unrest

much like a broken jack-in-the-box,

tucked away in your treasure chest,

yearning for some comforting discomfort

then wandering empty schoolyards

where we had settled on being unsettling,

where we shook ourselves back to dreaming,

long before distant arm waves,

less fatal practice runs and

personalized condolence cards.

Let me inhale your sh…

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