reading Brain not a mind reader  a book hes quoting

                                                       Two million new connections, or synapses are formed every second in an infants brain – as we mature fiftypercent of our synapses are pared

feelin cocky

            which means fiftypercent spared felt his brain twitch asif to say  I can trim that.

Don’t test me.

Ach

        tests were troubling

teachers laid them on his desktop  hed say  Cant we do orals

                                                                  the loooks they gave him

didnt deter him  he kept at it year after year

                                                Im tellinya Id test better orally

Id be happy to come in early before class to test  though not too early I have paper routes

    year after year

every test

every test placed on his desk nodding Yeah, yeah, yeah. his teachers must have thought they were the Beatles

despite their efforts despite ignoring him

                                            he graduated

Christ wha a gauntlet

though probably made him better prepared for life than many others adaptable scheming  hustling

    it was unfortunate Sales and Business made him cold

he probably would have been successful

maybe a career

                   which he eluded

to his parents dismay

but

      he wasnt living to please anyone other than himself

    he was inordinately  successfully  selfish

Tuesday evening,  11  8. 26

0954,  Wednesday,  12  8. 26