his Makers
his Adam an Eve were goneUp an
left him
Adam longago
an aged artist who
lived with his wife in the neighbourhood he cut his lawn raked his leaves shoveled his snow learned about art
learned he wasnt a painter
Eve
freshman year high school English
teacher
clipped obit arrived in the
mail
no return address postmark
obscuredsmeared didnt recognise the handwriting didnt recognise her the picture
he
wished newspapers would quit including the deceaseds face like cheap advertisements accompanying poorlywritten
parcels poor biographies
he was going to write his own
she was twentytwo when they last
saw other
he
heading into summer vacation she was
leaving forced to vacate her job it was her first year teaching
because of
him
he insistedpushed she obliged went endround CURriculum didnt abide it
enraged thats how he wrote it on her classroom chalkboard
she took the chalk from his trembling
hand sympathetically tilted her head
Not
clever, Joe.
angrily
Come off it coud have written cleared his tight throat CUR-lick-colon realised tha in all my other classes this
year he choked back tears I don want to be taught by dogs
he was heartbroken
the school
board sent her packing
he
couldnt believe squeezing her for more information wanting more knowledge would cost
her her job
I understood the risk.
she was an excellent teacher surpassed his junior high English
teacher Mr. Carter to you, laddie. a doughty acerbic Englishman who he cherished
three consecutive wonderful years
of English on top of four years prior quiet
instruction how to selfishly be himself
as selfish as the eldest of six kids could be
3PMish, Saturday, 15
7. 23
0919, Sunday,
16 7. 23
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