Lifting Things Now Matters More
I’m rocking out
My lower back
How things rock out these days
I must look a fool
I do not care
I might be doing something therapeutic
Might not
Might be doing nothing but
Expending energy
Don’t care
Either way, I have something to do
I’ve had to learn to say ouch
I’m not so good at it
Not out of heroics
Partly out of curiosity
That overwhelms when
Something new has happened
Partly because
I was told about
Silence and virtue
Long ago
By a teacher who was tired, I think
Stuck on a bus of us
On the return field trip from
Young people’s symphony
William Steinberg, conducting
What adult would
Want to hear the calls of children
After?
So when she said
Good children are quiet
Well, I heard that
And never was the same,
Which is all right
There were enough at home
That less noise from one
Would go
Like good spelling
Totally unappreciated
So, yeah, there’s that
I rock
C L Couch
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