The Dirty Napkin

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Current Issue — Volume 3.3, Summer 2010

About the Author

Cleo Griffith has been published in Iodine Poetry Journal, Main Street Rag, the Aurorean, Cider Press Review, Time of Singing, Quercus Review, Sierra Nevada Review, the Christian Science Monitor, and many others, and is chair of the editorial board of Song of the San Joaquin, established in 2003. She is a member of the Modesto, CA chapter of the National League of American Pen Women. She lives in Salida, CA with her husband Tom.

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To One Who Spent Too Much Time in the Classroom

Cleo Griffith

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Do not tell me before you speak
what you are about to say
or tell me afterward
what you have said.
This is no class,
with repetition key
to understanding words,
no mind is lead
to thoughts' bubbling well
and forced [ . . . ]

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