Yes, good opening line, Max, & a reminder of (perhaps) how times have changed...
A slow moving snappish video it felt like....
Doug
On Mar 4, 2014, at 11:32 PM, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> That extra length of hose required would certainly cause anxiety should a fire actually break out, Max. I think your observation about subject choice coming a dim third below the other two factors is often correct too, based on secondary school experience at least. Wudu is not a term I heard at Reservoir High but there was a dedicated prayer room in an underused remedial reading room. Africans would duck in and out and never suffered grief as far as I know form others.
>
> I like Fearful in the foyer' as an opening line. Sounds like it could be the title of an autobiography.
>
> Bill
>
> On 05/03/2014, at 12:05 PM, Max Richards wrote:
>
>> Signs of Anxiety
>>
>>
>> Fearful in the foyer
>> where new students
>> throng confused seeking
>> 'orientation'
>>
>> I tell myself they're
>> the young finding
>> themselves first,
>> one another next,
>>
>> what to study last.
>> I'm just here to browse
>> in the library,
>> but anxious -
>>
>> is it a fire-trap?
>> I peer where fire-hoses
>> ought to be -
>> a sign proclaims:
>>
>> AN ADDITIONAL
>> LENGTH OF HOSE
>> MAY BE REQUIRED
>> TO ACHIEVE COVERAGE
>>
>> In the men's toilet
>> I read: The Shower Room
>> may be used for Wudu.
>> Please consider other users,
>>
>> bring your own towel
>> and leave the area
>> as you found it.
>> Someone has scrawled:
>>
>> Voodoo. Someone
>> has erased it - not quite.
>> Wudu? Muslim hygiene,
>> why should I worry?
>>
>
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