Half-awake
teacher stress dreams
New year
New tries
Day 1, 2, 3
already boulders on my shoulders
student A with the phone
glowing on burning in
shift high broken eyes
the snickers and whines
the pleas and the pests
crawling into the bug traps
I don't care to check
like a long list of emails
eternally left to data dust.
Arrive on time my door is locked
the heater finally works
but it's all shit
rain in January
and yet so many say the change
is chance and a fake align,
so now I blink
the morning is black
cold crusted snow
late to work
is this the dream where
it's already third period
and principal waits to fire me
then I wake and my alarm
long since silenced,
this was no lucid dream
this is reality's daze
strung from full moon to full moon
my mind is a bog
won't wake and won't sleep
and in all the blinks
dreams
and cracking bank accounts
a year supposedly passed
and another will
half awake
eternally stressed
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Christopher Michael
High school chemistry teacher with a passion for science and the outdoors. Living in Utah I'm raising a family while climbing and creating.
My stories range from thoughtful poems to speculative fiction, fantasy, sci-fi, and thriller/horror.
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A telegram to Little Me
I acquired a magical souvenir; it was a realisation. By taking an impulsive trip to Thailand, I awarded myself the chance to have it. You are our own gift shop. You choose the opening times, you choose the stock. They are the very nature of wisdom, realisations. One could say we collect them and form a magnificent portfolio entitled Experience. And that's why we do the majority of things we do. But travelling is the act most generous in the offering of experience, the gift shop with the best stock. We go on the hunt for experiences, daring ourselves to be stimulated in new ways, by new flavours. To sweat, swim or shiver in the waters of new challenges. To hear new sounds, learn novel outlooks, and relish as hinges creak with unknown doors opening in our hearts and minds. This realisation and the flourishing effect it had upon me made Thailand my best trip yet. All this realisation consisted of was merely a stripped back epiphany of why we do these things. See new places, take new risks, seek refreshing distractions from all that we're tired of being familiar with.
By Konrad Kramp4 days ago in Wander
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