From Versions of North. Published in 2011 by Caitlin Press.

“You run on ahead?—Do you do so asa herdsman? Or as an exception?A third possibility would be as a deserter… First question of conscience.”—Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols
a place where allare neither fishnor fowlthe secretaryjust a bit too smartto be satisfiedmanaginga mid-size officethe teacherwho doesn’t reallylike kidsor who kidsdon’t likeor who can’tkeep his mouth shutat meetingswork well w/ othersall those MEdsw/ academic pretensionsthe MA w/ connections&/or charismavarious permutations ofthe academicnot interested enoughin her subjectto continue workbeyond the dissertationthe frustrated professorsw/ out proper lecture theatretoo much libidofor priesthood or wifesublimating desireendless preparationjoggingthe English instructor whostutters & blushes whilst readingthe dirty bits of the bookshe assignsthe historianwho writes potboiler novelsreplete w/ racial stereotypesthe wildlife biologistwho chases bearsfrom the staff parking lotthe chemistw/ record of researchobsessed w/ lebensraumthe physicistwho just can’t understandhow his students can beso stupidthe Muslim mathematicianstarving through Ramadan&, of course, the smugsuperior bastardw/ a few poemsin magazinesnobody reads

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