
I’m in the third grade and everything is a library
Mrs. Griswold is a haggard old piece of gristle and she hates everything
I am reading about dinosaurs and Greek mythology
It is summer and I am in school as part of some educational experiment
The dinosaurs
they speak to me
they say“I too was unwanted in this world
but look how glorious I was.”
Greek mythology she speaks to me
she says“Here is something too magnificent to be believed
Here is something holy
fallen into disrepair.”
And Mrs. Griswold can only scowl in reproach
as I indulge wonders she long ago denied
The hardest truth is that belief is a choice
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