My Teacher Said

by Ann R. Blakeslee

YOUR PENCIL IS NOT for marking the wallnor for sharpening down till there’s nothing at allnot for book decorating or poking or chasesor tracing initials in prominent placesnot to rattle for drumsticks like you were a bandor tattooing a face on the palm of your handnot to flick at a spider or strike at a flynor to tickle your classmate with jabs on the slynot for scratching or snatching or chewing the endnor for rapping a message in code to your friendnot for balancing acts or stirring your drinknor for tapping a tune on your teeth as you thinknot to break or to lose or pry gum off your shoes. NO, A PENCIL’S for lists if you’re a forgetteror sending off news to your pen pal by letterfor schoolwork at…

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