Mrs. Gonzalez’s Poop
Prepper paraphernalia
(iodine tablets, faraday cages)
might prove no more
than condoms
in a sixth grader’s Velcro wallet—
but just-in-case scenarios
do sometimes play out,
especially in an era of teachers
gone train-run rabid.
“We need books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.”—Kafka (against the safe-space cancel culture pushed by anti-art bullies, left and right)