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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