Tuesday, March 7, 2017

An astute truism

One of my high school English teachers often taught her class in a helter skelter fashion, throwing out offbeat observations and seemingly random vocabulary words at us that she'd encountered in articles.  One moment I'll never forget: She showed me a poem a student in one of her other classes had written.  She said, "I think this is very good.  See what you think."  She never explained why she gave me the poem, but to this day, I think the author's premise is one of the most perceptive ones I've read.  The poem's title, as well as its refrain, was "Nobody Wants You 100% Of The Time."  Who could argue with that?