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The Mother Road

I followed in their footsteps Distant destination brought close There were always trails Most animals are going to the same places The world beats paths For an eternity it was enough Was always a matter of time From a certain place you could look Our galaxy an active quasar Words find other meaning They want to stay around Like most things created Before we know if they will work The road as novelty They built it anyway You are gonna break down Always a matter of time What men make must mend maintenance all the time In places the road dies We cut mountains in half Few remains in those long ways around Nature loves to be left alone with a road Twisted and turned It is always a matter of time This place they crossed the petrified forest Now petrified as well I felt I had been there in slides In the seventies the best we had Best color and detail Your memory can be confused Such strange ways to travel With companions of many kind Baggage packed better with each stop The mother road brings...
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Another Child Grown Old

We do not go in circles around sun Music rains down from satellites The soundtrack of our lives Too much heat in the climate system The right amount of music playing We must be something different I can not go fifty-five Not sure which age I would pick if I could Have never been one thing The sun drags us along Our frame pulled and twisted down the road There is nothing simple to do Forever never here again There is something simple to be
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Fifteen Years

It takes a toll to teach about the end of segregation in segregated schools.  For the last fifteen years I have taught in three counties in Ohio.  I learned the most about teaching in the EC.  I never saw a good teacher yell.  If you're going to yell you better have your next plan ready. I have had many resources pass through my hands but have seen no end to need.  I have been trying to explain this concept to children about the lack of scientific evidence for race.  Anything you do for fifteen years you get better at. This Job would be impossible if children did not tell on themselves.
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More with More

We teach math while we ignore the math There are sides in education by design Reality is what implements every plan Teachers want to do more with more I have never been given resource I could not find good use Fifteen years over the falls never filled Administrators want to do more with less They are not all evil But many do not have those moments that keep teachers going The good modern education administrator is always on the move Worse when they stay and think they can fix all the problems Seven administrations in fifteen years I have seen Those fist years they intimidated me These last years I have found little use for them There are simple answers Education is the investment with the best return We try to contain cost when we should invest We can not wait for our return Our bubble economy wants to be rich quick There is nothing sustainable Either we will change this or society will not be sustained
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Black Women Magic

In Eastern Europe the Eastern Bloc lost its way Communism dreams are not for farmers They had to create something new We called a civil society The west was just as corrupt Capitalism is not a destination Pain created something new Black Women Magic best name I have
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Bea a Reader

 For several years once a month in the summer I gave away books on the farmer's market.  We were part of care-a-van so there were other resources available for the community.  People offered money at times.  People donated books to me.  I got rid of a good portion of my books from university.  Those books I would stack up at the end of the semester and they were always taller than my daughter. My son helped me most of the time and I was doing it mostly for him.  We found an internship there he had all through high school.  The botanical garden's revamped Green Corps was in the booth next to us one Saturday.  People all came and acted as they thought everyone did.  Everyone responded different to the books.  People have a confidence with books.  They think they know what they are. Some could not believe they were all free.  We just told people there was a one book minimum.  Some people really needed to be convinced to ...
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No Road Ahead

There are more endings than beginnings The road ends more than it starts I thought that there would only be one One of the first questions I remember Where does the road end?   Where is the end of the road? I lived along it was one place I started There are rivers in the air Also now highways Desperate people now crossing the darien gap Just sixty miles the road had failed to reach Impassable for most What is that I can do What is that I may do They are building a road across the gap with their feet
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