Little poem referenced in past post

A man bites his thumb
after a day of maintaining
the Hidden Curriculum.
The prof. scrawls across
the board a crazed
madness. And in my
desired stuper, I find
myself unsure of
whether his madness is
the lecture of our course
or the gibberish twitching
in my dreaming
head.



Can anyone guess what class I wrote this in? haha :) You never know when your muse will hover over you, asking you to write.

I left my last entry without sharing what a writers notebook is (for anyone who may not know-- which also assumes that someone reads theses posts, and of which I have no idea). A writers notebook is simply a place to jot things down daily as you notice them. Sometimes, as in the instance of the little poem above, a full verse or set of verses or prose, etc., come pouring on out of you and onto the paper. But most times, for me at least, it is an interesting thought, question or words smashed together that leave themselves ringing in your ear. I find it important to thoroughly enjoy those speaking words (which many of us do, usually with a chuckle, a smile or even a perplexed wrinkle in the forehead), but also to capture them in a writers notebook. You see, what's so beautiful about catching them in a notebook is that it allows them to come alive again when you revisit them. A poem may stem from each one. Or questions, or some other form of writing. A song. Or you throw them all together, one after the other, and suddenly you have a list poem like the one I have shared here in a previous entry.

Without this writers notebook, though, you are forced to start from scratch every time you sit down to write (not that this is necessarily a bad thing-- always). But with the writers notebook, you are given the freedom to come and go as you please. Perhaps the muse hits you but so does a duty call. No worries, the notebook holds the flair the muse began with and keeps it there for you so that when you are able to return the words have not left you.

This, my friends, is why I am more than ready to bring my writers notebook back to life.